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Kenelm Chillingly, Complete
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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BOOK I. CHAPTER I.
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CHAPTER II. A FAMILY council was held at Exmundham Hall to deliberate on the name
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CHAPTER III. SIR PETER stood on his hearthstone, surveyed the guests seated in
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CHAPTER IV. "I AGREE with Mr. Shandy," said Sir Peter, resuming his stand on the
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CHAPTER V. BEFORE his relations dispersed, Sir Peter summoned Mr. Gordon into his
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CHAPTER VI. DESPITE the sinister semi-predictions of the _ci-devant_ heir-at-law,
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CHAPTER VII. SIR PETER ordered his carriage and drove to the house of the stout
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CHAPTER VIII. THE youthful confuter of Locke was despatched to Merton School, and
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CHAPTER IX. ON the evening of the third day from the arrival of Mr. Mivers, he, the
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CHAPTER X. MR. WELBY arrived, and pleased everybody. A man of the happiest manners,
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CHAPTER XI. KENELM remained a year and a half with this distinguished preceptor.
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CHAPTER XII. THERE had been great festivities at Exmundham, in celebration of the
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CHAPTER XIII. THE morning after these birthday rejoicings, Sir Peter and Lady
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CHAPTER XIV. THE young man continued to skirt the side of the stream until he reached
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CHAPTER XV. KENELM retraced his steps homeward under the shade of his "old
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BOOK II. CHAPTER I.
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CHAPTER II. ABOUT nine o'clock Kenelm entered a town some twelve miles distant from
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CHAPTER III. "NOW, young sir," said Kenelm, in a tone calm, but peremptory,--"now we
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CHAPTER IV. KENELM took his way to the theatre, and inquired of the door-keeper for
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CHAPTER V. "I HAVE fulfilled my mission," said Kenelm, on rejoining his travelling
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CHAPTER VI. AS Kenelm regained the street dignified by the edifice of the Temperance
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CHAPTER VII. KENELM CHILLINGLY rose with the sun, according to his usual custom, and
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CHAPTER VIII. "BY the powers that guard innocence and celibacy," soliloquized Kenelm
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CHAPTER IX. IT was a pretty, quaint farmhouse, such as might well go with two or
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CHAPTER X. THE next day the hay-mowing was completed, and a large portion of the
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CHAPTER XI. "AND now," said Kenelm, as the two young persons, having finished their
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CHAPTER XII. KENELM spoke no more to his new friend in the hayfields; but when the
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CHAPTER XIII. KENELM knocked at the cottage door; a voice said faintly, "Come in."
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CHAPTER XIV. KENELM rose betimes the next morning somewhat stiff and uneasy, but
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CHAPTER XV. KENELM now bent his way towards the parsonage, but just as he neared
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CHAPTER XVI. AFTER the family dinner, at which the farmer's guest displayed more
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CHAPTER XVII. SAID Kenelm, at last breaking silence--
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CHAPTER XVIII. IN his room, solitary and brooding, sat the defeated hero of a hundred
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CHAPTER XIX. KENELM CHILLINGLY drew a chair close to his antagonist's, and silently
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CHAPTER XX. WHEN, some time after, Kenelm quitted the room and joined Mrs. Bowles
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CHAPTER XXI. MR. SAUNDERSON and Kenelm sat in the arbour: the former sipping his grog
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BOOK III. CHAPTER I.
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CHAPTER II. IT was a lovely summer evening for the Squire's rural entertainment. Mr.
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CHAPTER III. IF, having just perused what has thus been written on the biographical
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CHAPTER IV. QUITTING Mr. Lethbridge, Travers turned with quick step towards the more
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CHAPTER V. CECILIA stole a shy glance at Kenelm as the two emerged from the fernery
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CHAPTER VI. KENELM CHILLINGLY, ESQ., TO SIR PETER CHILLINGLY, BART., ETC.
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CHAPTER VII. VILLAGERS lie abed on Sundays later than on workdays, and no shutter was
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CHAPTER VIII. NOW when our two travellers resumed their journey, the relationship
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CHAPTER IX. "YOU see we are fated to meet again," said Kenelm, stretching himself
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CHAPTER X. THE child with the flower-ball had vanished from the brow of the hill;
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CHAPTER XI. AND now Kenelm found himself at the extremity of the town, and on the
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CHAPTER XII. THE next morning betimes Kenelm visited Tom at his uncle's home. A
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CHAPTER XIII. WHETHER or not his spirits were raised by Kenelm's praise and
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CHAPTER XIV. THOUGH Kenelm left Luscombe on Tuesday morning, he did not appear at
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CHAPTER XV. KENELM CHILLINGLY has now been several days a guest at Neesdale Park.
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CHAPTER XVI. THE house of Mr. Travers contained a considerable collection of family
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CHAPTER XVII. THE next day Mrs. Campion and Cecilia were seated under the veranda.
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CHAPTER XVIII. WHILE the conversation just narrated took place, Kenelm had walked forth
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CHAPTER XIX. THE same evening, after dinner (during that lovely summer month they
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CHAPTER XX. AS Kenelm that night retired to his own room, he paused on the
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CHAPTER XXI. THE next morning Kenelm surprised the party at breakfast by appearing
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BOOK IV. CHAPTER I.
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CHAPTER II. "I AM glad to see you once more in the world," said Lady Glenalvon; "and
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CHAPTER III. THE rooms were now full,--not overcrowded, but full,--and it was rarely
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CHAPTER IV. Mr. CHILLINGLY MIVERS never gave a dinner at his own rooms. When he
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CHAPTER V. KENELM entered the room. The young cousins were introduced, shook hands,
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CHAPTER VI. CHILLINGLY GORDON did not fail to confirm his acquaintance with Kenelm.
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CHAPTER VII. KENELM CHILLINGLY did not exaggerate the social position he had acquired
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CHAPTER VIII. WE often form cordial intimacies in the confined society of a country
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CHAPTER IX. IT is nearly a week since Kenelm had met Cecilia, and he is sitting
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CHAPTER X. KENELM turned from the sight of Punch and Punch's friend the cur, as his
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BOOK V. CHAPTER I.
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CHAPTER II. ON entering the main street of the pretty town, the name of Somers,
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CHAPTER III. A SMART pony-phaeton, with a box for a driver in livery equally smart,
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CHAPTER IV. THE children have come,--some thirty of them, pretty as English children
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CHAPTER V. FROM this state, half comatose, half unconscious, Kenelm was roused
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CHAPTER VI. KENELM walked into the shop kept by the Somerses, and found Jessie
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CHAPTER VII. KENELM might have reached Oxford that night, for he was a rapid and
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CHAPTER VIII. THE next morning Kenelm arrived at Oxford,--"Verum secretumque
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CHAPTER IX. ON quitting Oxford, Kenelm wandered for several days about the country,
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BOOK VI. CHAPTER I.
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CHAPTER II. WANDERING back towards Moleswich, Kenelm found himself a little before
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CHAPTER III. THOUGH Kenelm did not think it necessary at present to report to his
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CHAPTER IV. KENELM went with somewhat rapid pace from Mrs. Braefield's to the shop
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CHAPTER V. LILY was seated on the grass under a chestnut-tree on the lawn. A white
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CHAPTER VI. THE dinner-party at Mr. Braefield's was not quite so small as Kenelm
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CHAPTER VII. THE drawing-room was deserted; the ladies were in the garden. As Kenelm
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CHAPTER VIII. THE hour for parting came. Of all the guests, Sir Thomas alone stayed
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CHAPTER IX. THERE were a good many pretty villas in the outskirts of Moleswich, and
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CHAPTER X. "AND how is your good man, Mrs. Haley?" said the vicar, who had now
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CHAPTER XI. THEY quitted the burial-ground, taking their way to Grasmere. Kenelm
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CHAPTER XII. IT was a very merry party at the vicarage that evening. Lily had not
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CHAPTER XIII. THE room is duly obscured and the white sheet attached to the wall; the
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CHAPTER XIV. FOR the next two weeks or so Kenelm and Lily met not indeed so often
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CHAPTER XV. KENELM did indeed find a huge pile of letters and notes on reaching his
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CHAPTER XVI. MRS. CAMERON was seated alone in her pretty drawing-room, with a book
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CHAPTER XVII. NOW, on that very day, and about the same hour in which the conversation
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BOOK VII. CHAPTER I.
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CHAPTER II. KENELM despatched a note to Will Somers early the next morning, inviting
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CHAPTER III. THE next day, towards noon, Kenelm and his visitor, walking together
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CHAPTER IV. TOM went away the next morning. He declined to see Jessie again, saying
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CHAPTER V. FROM KENELM CHILLINGLY TO SIR PETER CHILLINGLY.
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CHAPTER VI. THE next day Kenelm walked into the town, posted his voluminous letter
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CHAPTER VII. IT is somewhere about three weeks since the party invited by Sir Peter
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BOOK VIII. CHAPTER I.
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CHAPTER II. KENELM arrived at Exmundham just in time to dress for dinner. His
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CHAPTER III. KENELM did not see either father or mother till he appeared at dinner.
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CHAPTER IV. KENELM found it a much harder matter to win Lady Glenalvon to his side
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CHAPTER V. KENELM slept in London that night, and, the next day, being singularly
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CHAPTER VI. THE minstrel gave a cordial parting shake of the hand to the
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CHAPTER VII. IF I could not venture to place upon paper the exact words of an
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CHAPTER VIII. SO, then, but for that officious warning, uttered under the balcony
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CHAPTER IX. NEARLY a year and a half has elapsed since the date of my last chapter.
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CHAPTER X. A WINTER'S evening at Moleswich. Very different from a winter sunset
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CHAPTER XI. THE next morning Mr. Emlyn, passing from his garden to the town of
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CHAPTER XII. "YES, sir, Mr. Melville is at home in his studio."
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CHAPTER XIII KENELM went back alone, and with downcast looks, through the desolate,
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CHAPTER XIV. SOMEWHAT more than another year has rolled away. It is early spring
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CHAPTER XV. WHILE the conversation just related took place between Cecilia and
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CHAPTER IV. "I AGREE with Mr. Shandy," said Sir Peter, resuming his stand on the
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