Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton · English
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Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton · English
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CHAPTER I. Four meals a day, nor those sparing, were not deemed too extravagant an interpretation of the daily bread for which the Saxon prayed. Four meals a day, from earl to ceorl! "Happy times!" may sigh the descendant of the last, if he read these pages; partly so they were for the ceorl, but not in all things, for never sweet is the food, and never gladdening is the drink, of servitude. Inebriety, the vice of the warlike nations of the North, had not, perhaps, been the pre- emi
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