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Morgan that any one conversant with the facts of his life-romance would have at once inferred though by just what logic he might not be able to explain that this must be Miss Eood.

I know that many narratives have been written detailing the remarkable and almost inconceivable machinations of those who have stained their hands with crime, but I honestly believe that the extraordinary features of my own life-romance are as strange as, if not stranger than, any hitherto recorded.

Morgan that any one conversant with the facts of his life-romance would have at once inferred though by just what logic he might not be able to explain that this must be Miss Rood.

The kaleidoscope of her memories showed to her one scene, one of the episodes that had gone to make up her character, to strengthen her devotion: the whirring of a sewing machine in a lamp-lit room and a life-romance told to the whirring, the fate of a woman as Geisner's was the fate of a man.

In her quaint appeal she naïvely points with pride to the fact that in thirty years she had married with three of his Majesty's servants. We are not told what further royal alliances she achieved. We know nothing of Willaert's life-romance, but he must have been happily married, for he made six wills before he died, and they are all preserved.

The vivid style of this autobiography dictated by Cellini while still engaged in the labour of his craft, its animated picture of a powerful character, the variety of its incidents, and the amount of information it contains, place it high both as a life-romance and also as a record of contemporary history.