The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 06

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Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон. The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 06

PART VI

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

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"I don't know that," said my father.

What is it my father does not know? My father does not know that "happiness is our being's end and aim."

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"Exactly," said my father; "because to every question there are two sides, and you look at them both."

"You have said it," answered Trevanion, smiling also. "For public life a man should be one-sided: he must act with a party; and a party insists that the shield is silver, when, if it will take the trouble to turn the corner, it will see that the reverse of the shield is gold. Woe to the man who makes that discovery alone, while his party are still swearing the shield is silver, and that not once in his life, but every night!

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