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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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CANTO I.
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CANTO II.
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CANTO III.
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CANTO IV. LETTER FROM COUSIN JOHN TO COUSIN ALFRED.
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CANTO V.
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IX. THE COMTESSE DE NEVERS TO LORD ALFRED VARGRAVE.
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CANTO VI.
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PART II.

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But in vain did he reason and argue. Alas!
He yet felt unconvinced that 'twas best as it was.
Out of reach of all reason, for ever would rise
That infantine face of Matilda, with eyes
So sad, so reproachful, so cruelly kind,
That they harrow'd his heart and distracted his mind.
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