# The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 08

Author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7593

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Caxtons%3A+A+Family+Picture+Lytton&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There entered, in the front drawing-room of my father's house in Russell Street, an Elf! clad in white,--small, delicate, with curls of jet over her shoulders; with eyes so large and so lustrous that they shone through the room as no eyes merely human could possibly shine. The Elf approached, and stood facing us. The sight was so unexpected and the apparition so strange that we remained for some moments in startled silence. At length my father, as the bolder and wiser man of the two, and the more fitted to deal with the eerie things of another world, had the audacity to step close up to the little creature, and, bending down to examine its face, said, "What do you want, my pretty child?"

## Chapters

- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-caxtons-a-family-picture-volume-08-7593/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-caxtons-a-family-picture-volume-08-7593/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-caxtons-a-family-picture-volume-08-7593/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-caxtons-a-family-picture-volume-08-7593/chapters/1/index.md)