[Lucretia Complete by Edward Bulwer-Lytton]@TWC D-Link bookLucretia Complete CHAPTER V 4/15
No; I see you leading senates, and duping fools.
I shall be by your side, your partner, step after step, as you mount the height, for I am ambitious, you know, William; and not less because I love,--rather ten thousand times more so.
I would not have you born great and noble, for what then could we look to,--what use all my schemes, and my plans, and aspirings? Fortune, accident, would have taken from us the great zest of life, which is desire. When I see you, I shall tell you that I have some fears of Olivier Dalibard; he has evidently some wily project in view.
He, who never interfered before with the blundering physician, now thrusts him aside, affects to have saved the old man, attends him always.
Dares he think to win an influence, to turn against me,--against us? Happily, when I shall come back, my uncle will probably be restored to the false strength which deceives him; he will have less need of Dalibard; and then--then let the Frenchman beware! I have already a plot to turn his schemes to his own banishment.
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