[Ernest Maltravers Complete by Edward Bulwer-Lytton]@TWC D-Link bookErnest Maltravers Complete CHAPTER XIII 7/9
The other rooms were appropriated to, and named after, his several friends. Mr.Cleveland had been advised by a hasty line of the movements of his ward, and he received the young man with a smile of welcome, though his eyes were moist and his lips trembled--for the boy was like his father!--a new generation had commenced for Cleveland! "Welcome, my dear Ernest," said he; "I am so glad to see you, that I will not scold you for your mysterious absence.
This is your room, you see your name over the door; it is a larger one than you used to have, for you are a man now; and there is your German sanctum adjoining--for Schiller and the meerschaum!--a bad habit that, the meerschaum! but not worse than the Schiller, perhaps.
You see you are in the peristyle immediately.
The meerschaum is good for flowers, I fancy, so have no scruple.
Why, my dear boy, how pale you are! Be cheered--be cheered. Well, I must go myself, or you will infect me." Cleveland hurried away; he thought of his lost friend.
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