Chapter I · Chapter 1

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading TO HORATIO BRIDGE, ESQ., U. S. N.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading TO HORATIO BRIDGE, ESQ., U. S. N.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading TO HORATIO BRIDGE, ESQ., U. S. N.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading TO HORATIO BRIDGE, ESQ., U. S. N.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading TO HORATIO BRIDGE, ESQ., U. S. N.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading TO HORATIO BRIDGE, ESQ., U. S. N.

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From this reading TO HORATIO BRIDGE, ESQ., U. S. N.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.

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From this reading PREFACE The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Main Street Ethan Brand A Bell’s Biography Sylph Etherege The Canterbury Pilgrims Old News The Man of Adamant: An Apologue The Devil in Manuscript John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of The Past The Wives of The Dead Little Daffydowndilly My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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From this reading In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

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From this reading MY DEAR BRIDGE:—Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the reader’s way into the interior edifice of a book.

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From this reading I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience.