Ernest Maltravers; or The Eleusinia

Ernest Maltravers; or The Eleusinia by Edward Bulwer-Lytton - SOME four miles distant from one of our northern manufacturing towns, in the year 18-, was a wide and desolate common; a more dreary spot it is impossible to conceive-the herbage grew up in sickly patches from the midst of a black and stony soil. Not a tree was to be seen in the whole of the comfortless expanse. Nature herself had seeme...