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BOOK VIII.

Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete

Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron · 2004

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  1. 01Front matter
  2. 02BOOK I.
  3. 03CHAPTER XI.
  4. 04CHAPTER XII.
  5. 05CHAPTER XIII.
  6. 06BOOK II.
  7. 07BOOK III.
  8. 08BOOK IV.
  9. 09BOOK V.
  10. 10BOOK VI.
  11. 11BOOK VII.
  12. 12BOOK VIII.
  13. 13LETTER FROM ERNEST MALTRAVERS TO THE HON. FREDERICK CLEVELAND.
  14. 14BOOK IX.
  15. 15LETTER FROM ERNEST MALTRAVERS TO EVELYN CAMERON.
  16. 16BOOK X.
  17. 17BOOK XI.
  18. 18CHAPTER THE LAST.
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BOOK VIII.

O Fate! O Heaven!--what have ye then decreed? SOPHOCLES: Oed. Tyr. 738.

"Insolent pride... ...... The topmost crag of the great precipice Surmounts--to rush to ruin." Ibid. 874.

CHAPTER I.

... SHE is young, wise, fair, In these to Nature she's immediate heir. ...... ... Honours best thrive When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers!--All's Well that Ends Well.