Excerpt from The Novels and Romances of Edward Bulwer Lytton, Vol. 2 of 2
And as for me, tho' that I can but lite
On bookes for me to read, I me delight,
And to hem give I faith and full credence,
And in my heart have hem in reverence,
So heartily that there is game none,
That fro' my bookes maketh me to gone. - Chaucer.
Christopher Clutterbuck was a common individual of a common order, but little known in this busy and toiling world. I cannot flatter myself that I am about to present to your notice that rara avis, a new character, - yet there is something interesting, and even unhackneyed, in the retired and simple class to which he belongs; and before I proceed to a darker period in my memoirs, I feel a calm and tranquillizing pleasure in the rest which a brief and imperfect delineation of my college companion affords me. My friend came up to the University with the learning which one about to quit the world might, with credit, have boasted of possessing, and the simplicity which one about to enter it would have been ashamed to confess.
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