Read "Eugene Aram Book III" by Edward Bulwer-lytton online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
Falstaff. -- "Bid my Lieutenant Peto meet me at the town's end. I pressed me none but such toasts and butter, with hearts in their bellies no bigger than pins' heads. " -- Henry IV.
They had scarcely reached the Manor-house, before the rain, which the clouds had portended throughout the whole day, began to descend in torrents, and to use the strong expression of the Roman poet -- the night rushed down, black and sudden, over the face of the earth.