Lucretia by Edward Bulwer-Lytton - A man, better dressed than the rest, turned round with a smile, and answered: Nothing worse than a lover, I believe; but that lover was a proscrit. The ci-devant marquis was caught disguised in her apartment. She betrayed for him a good, easy friend of the people who had long loved her, and revenge is sweet.
The man whom we have accompanied, nervously twitched u...