Teks asli (Inggris)

This eBook was produced by David Widger PELHAM By Edward Bulwer Lytton VOLUME I. CHAPTER I. Ou peut-on etre mieux qu'au sein de sa famille? --French Song. [Where can on be better than in the bosom of one's family?] I am an only child. My father was the younger son of one of our oldest earls; my mother the dowerless daughter of a Scotch peer. Mr. Pelham was a moderate whig, and gave sumptuous dinners; Lady Frances was a woman of taste, and