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PAUL CLIFFORD.




CHAPTER I.


What is here?—
Gold? . . . . .
Thus much of this will make black white—foul fair.

Timon of Athens.


Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly drest,
Fresh as a bridegroom.

Henry the Fourth.


I do not know the man I should avoid
So soon as that spare Cassius? He reads much.
He is a great observer; and he looks
Quite through the deeds of men.
Often he smiles; but smiles in such a sort,
As if he mocked himself or scorned his spirit,
That could be moved to smile at any thing.

Julius Cæsar.


The next day, late at noon, as Lucy was sitting with her father, not as usual engaged either in work or in reading, but seemingly quite idle, with