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EDWARD
BULWER-LYTTON
KENELM
CHILLINGLY
HIS ADVENTURES
AND OPINIONS
PART I
Москва
T8 RUGRAM
2019
УДК 82
ББК 84(0)
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Kenelm Chillingly · I / E. Bulwer-Lytton. – М. : Т8 Издательские
технологии / RUGRAM, 2019. – 438 с. – (Original)
ISBN 978-5-521-08276-6
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fi ction genre. “Kenelm
Chillingly” is one of Bulwer’s most popular novels of English
life. Kenelm is the long-desired heir of an old family, who leaves
home in search of adventures as an unknown pedestrian with
a few pounds in his pocket, but he does not expect, that adventures will change him cardinally.
УДК 82
ББК 84(0)
BIC FC
BISAC FIC004000
© T8 RUGRAM, оформление, 2019
ISBN 978-5-521-08276-6 © Т8 Издательские технологии, 2019
CONTENTS
BOOK I .......................................................5
CHAPTER I................................................7
CHAPTER II.............................................14
CHAPTER III............................................21
CHAPTER IV............................................24
CHAPTER V............................................. 30
CHAPTER VI............................................33
CHAPTER VII........................................... 35
CHAPTER VIII ..........................................38
CHAPTER IX ............................................47
CHAPTER X .............................................55
CHAPTER XI ............................................58
CHAPTER XII ...........................................62
CHAPTER XIII ..........................................67
CHAPTER XIV ..........................................75
CHAPTER XV ...........................................83
BOOK II.....................................................89
CHAPTER I..............................................91
CHAPTER II.............................................92
CHAPTER III...........................................101
CHAPTER IV...........................................115
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
CHAPTER V............................................119
CHAPTER VI...........................................127
CHAPTER VII..........................................130
CHAPTER VIII .........................................138
CHAPTER IX ...........................................148
CHAPTER X ............................................159
CHAPTER XI ...........................................162
CHAPTER XII ..........................................167
CHAPTER XIII .........................................180
CHAPTER XIV .........................................189
CHAPTER XV ..........................................198
CHAPTER XVI .........................................206
CHAPTER XVII ........................................215
CHAPTER XVIII .......................................219
CHAPTER XIX .........................................221
CHAPTER XX ..........................................224
CHAPTER XXI .........................................228
BOOK III...................................................233
CHAPTER I.............................................235
CHAPTER II............................................239
CHAPTER III...........................................245
CHAPTER IV...........................................256
CHAPTER V............................................264
CHAPTER VI...........................................269
CHAPTER VII..........................................274
CHAPTER VIII .........................................281
CHAPTER IX ...........................................285
CHAPTER X ............................................291
CHAPTER XI ...........................................296
KENELM CHILLINGLY
CHAPTER XII ..........................................301
CHAPTER XIII .........................................305
CHAPTER XIV .........................................317
CHAPTER XV ..........................................320
CHAPTER XVI .........................................323
CHAPTER XVII ........................................334
CHAPTER XVIII .......................................338
CHAPTER XIX .........................................344
CHAPTER XX ..........................................352
CHAPTER XXI .........................................360
BOOK IV...................................................363
CHAPTER I.............................................365
CHAPTER II............................................374
CHAPTER III...........................................378
CHAPTER IV...........................................381
CHAPTER V............................................389
CHAPTER VI...........................................395
CHAPTER VII..........................................407
CHAPTER VIII .........................................419
CHAPTER IX ...........................................422
CHAPTER X ............................................429
BOOK I
CHAPTER I
Sir Peter Chillingly, of Exmundham, Baronet, F.R.S. and
F.A.S., was the representative of an ancient family, and a landed proprietor of some importance. He had married young;
not from any ardent inclination for the connubial state,
but in compliance with the request of his parents. They took
the pains to select his bride; and if they might have chosen
better, they might have chosen worse, which is more than can
be said for many men who choose wives for themselves. Miss
Caroline Brotherton was in all respects a suitable connection.
She had a pretty fortune, which was of much use in buying
a couple of farms, long desiderated by the Chillinglys as necessary for the rounding of their property into a ring-fence.
She was highly connected, and brought into the county that
experience of fashionable life acquired by a young lady who
has attended a course of balls for three seasons, and gone out in
matrimonial honours, with credit to herself and her chaperon.
She was handsome enough to satisfy a husband’s pride, but
not so handsome as to keep perpetually on the qui vive a husband’s jealousy. She was considered highly accomplished; that
is, she played upon the pianoforte so that any musician would
say she “was very well taught;” but no musician would go
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out of his way to hear her a second time. She painted in watercolours — well enough to amuse herself. She knew French and
Italian with an elegance so lady-like that, without having read
more than selected extracts from authors in those languages,
she spoke them both with an accent more correct than we
have any reason to attribute to Rousseau or Ariosto. What else
a young lady may acquire in order to be styled highly accomplished I do not pretend to know; but I am sure that the young
lady in question fulfilled that requirement in the opinion of
the best masters. It was not only an eligible match for Sir Peter Chillingly, — it was a brilliant match. It was also a very
unexceptionable match for Miss Caroline Brotherton. This excellent couple got on together as most excellent couples do.
A short time after marriage, Sir Peter, by the death of his parents — who, having married their heir, had nothing left in life
worth the trouble of living for — succeeded to the hereditary
estates; he lived for nine months of the year at Exmundham,
going to town for the other three months. Lady Chillingly
and himself were both very glad to go to town, being bored at
Exmundham; and very glad to go back to Exmundham, being
bored in town. With one exception it was an exceedingly happy marriage, as marriages go. Lady Chillingly had her way in
small things; Sir Peter his way in great. Small things happen
every day; great things once in three years. Once in three years
Lady Chillingly gave way to Sir Peter; households so managed
go on regularly. The exception to their connubial happiness
was, after all, but of a negative description. Their affection was
such that they sighed for a pledge of it; fourteen years had he
and Lady Chillingly remained unvisited by the little stranger.
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