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NIGHT AND MORNING Book III
THE WORKS OF EDWARDBULWERLYTTON (LORD LYTTON)
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Title: Night and Morning, Volume 3 Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Release Date: January 2006 [EBook #9752] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on October 9, 2003]
CHAPTER I. "The knight of arts and industry, And his achievements fair " . THOMSON'SCastle of Indolence: Explanatory Verse to Canto II. In a popular and respectable, but not very fashionable quartier in Paris, and in the tolerably broad and effective locale of the Rue ——, there might be seen, at the time I now treat of, a curious-looking building, that jutted out semicircularly from the neighbouring shops, with plaster pilasters and compo ornaments. Thevirtuosiof thequartierhad discovered that the building was constructed in imitation of an ancient temple in Rome; this erection, then fresh and new, reached only to the entresollight green and gilded in the cornices, while, surmounting the architrave, were three. The pilasters were painted little statues— one held a torch, another a bow, and a third a bag; they were therefore rumoured, I know not with what justice, to be the artistical representatives of Hymen, Cupid and Fortune. On the door was neatly engraved, on a brass plate, the following inscription: "MONSIEUR LOVE, ANGLAIS, A L'ENTRESOL."