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Lucile

By Owen Meredith [i.e. E. R. B. Lytton]
Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton (1831-1891)
  
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LUCILE.
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PART I.
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PART II.
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CANTO I.
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CANTO III.
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CANTO V.
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CANTO VI.

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III.

Alfred Vargrave had time, after leaving Lucile,
To review the rash step he had taken, and feel
What the world would have call'd ‘his erroneous position.’
Thought obtruded its claim, and enforced recognition:
Like a creditor who, when the gloss is worn out
On the coat which we once wore with pleasure no doubt,
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Sends us in his account for the garment we bought.
Ev'ry spendthrift to passion is debtor to thought.
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