Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer

“ It was now the morning in which Eugene Aram was to be married to Madeline Lester. The Student's house had been set in order for the arrival of the Bride, and though it was yet early morn, two old women whom his domestic (now not the only one, for a buxom lass of eighteen had been transplanted from Lester's household, to meet the additional cares that the change of circumstance brought to Aram's,) had invited to assist her in arranging what was already arranged, were bustling about the lower apartments, and making matters as they called it "tidy." ”

“ In some parts of the country, and especially in that where our scene is laid, no omen is more superstitiously believed evil, than the departure of these loathsome animals from their accustomed habitation; the instinct which is supposed to make them desert an unsafe tenement, is supposed also to make them predict, in desertion, ill fortune to the possessor. ”

“ They says there is not a blade o' grass that the Master does not know. He must be a good man to love the things of the field so."
"Ho!" said Dame Darkmans, "ho! when Joe Wrench was hanged for shooting the Lord's keeper, and he mounted the scaffold wid' a nosegay in his hand, he said, in a peevish voice, says he: 'Why does not they give me a tarnation? I always loved them sort o' flowers, I wore them when I went a courting Bess Lucas; an' I would like to die with one in my hand!' So a man may like flowers, and be but a hempen dog after all." ”