My Novel, Books 7, 8, and 9 of 12 by Edward George Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Fiction, Literary 12+

🔖 Blanche at that recollection stole to my father's chair, and, hanging over his shoulder, kissed his forehead. MR. CAXTON (sublimely unmoved by these flatteries). -- "I don't deny that I faced the bull, but I assert that I was horribly frightened."