[Kenelm Chillingly<br> Complete by Edward Bulwer-Lytton]@TWC D-Link book
Kenelm Chillingly
Complete

CHAPTER IV
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As the dace sticks to the water and the water sticks by the dace, so the Chillinglys stuck to the land and the land stuck by the Chillinglys.

Perhaps I am wrong to wish that the new Chillingly may be a little less like a dace." "Oh!" cried Miss Margaret, who, mounted on a chair, had been inspecting the pedigree through an eye-glass, "I don't see a fine Christian name from the beginning, except Oliver." SIR PETER.--"That Chillingly was born in Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate, and named Oliver in compliment to him, as his father, born in the reign of James I., was christened James.

The three fishes always swam with the stream.

Oliver!--Oliver not a bad name, but significant of radical doctrines." Mr.MIVERS.--"I don't think so.

Oliver Cromwell made short work of radicals and their doctrines; but perhaps we can find a name less awful and revolutionary." "I have it! I have it!" cried the Parson.


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