Download or read book Cheveley; Or, the Man of Honour written by Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... V Unnatural Son; which, being full of terrible things, was naturally much admired.'" "Bless me! what a orrid villain," interrupted Mrs. Stokes; "murder five wives! and why wasn't he hanged five times for it at Newgate, pray?" "Why, my dear, he was a gentleman and a genius, and they may do anything; it is only common people that are deprived of murder, with many other luxuries," said Datchet. "And more shame for them as deprives'em," exclaimed Mrs. Stokes, tying on her bonnet vehemently. "Well, to go on with my story," continued Datchet, "while we were still talking, who should come in but Mr. Trevyllian himself] I must confess he was a wonderful looking person: there was a kind of patent, selfacting-villain air about him, that gave one the idea of the devil's being a baby to him in wickedness, that was truly surprising and uncommon; his wife (the one at the time being in waiting, 1 mean) he had, it appears, sent to bed, and he had come to try and effect a transfer with Captain Milton Scroggins for some cypress wine he had lying in the docks, in exchange for some of the captain's much-vaunted tobacco. "Scroggins expressed himself but too proud to have it in his power to oblige so great a man; and then glancing at a pair of large, yellow, embroidered Turkish slippers that the new-comer wore, added, ' You must be cruel easy, sir, I calculate, in those outlandish shufflers; pity they're not in parliament, they'd bring forred such a capital motion on the corn laws.' "At this, Captain Milton Scroggins and the great man laughed together for five minutes, and then the latter added, ' Yes, and, like most of the motions of that house, it would be all " leather and prunella."' This rose Mr. Trevyllian in my opinion, because, though he was what Mr....