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But he says it is scarcely worth while to mention such a trifle in anything so important as a book. I cannot venture, after this, to do more than slip these lines in modestly at the end of the story. If the printer should notice my few last words, perhaps he may not mind the trouble of putting them into some out-of-the-way corner, in very small type. MICHEL LORIO'S CROSS, By Hesba Stretton
It was a terrible shock to Miss Dorothy the day she unearthed a nest of letters in one of the huge wooden urns surmounting the gateway that led to her dovecot. It was a bitter moment to Miss Phoebe and Miss Candace and Miss Hesba, when they had their locks of hair grimly handed back to them by Miss Gibbs in the presence of the whole school.
The British public will never run dry. I'm cheap John! Here they are, all for nothin', on loan; small wollum the title ain't clear, ah! The Little Man as Lost his Mother; big wollum Shakespeare; Pickwick; books by Hesba Stretton; Almanac; Missionary Williams; Polar Seas an' Regions; Pilgrim's Progress all sorts to suit all tastes Catechisms, Noo Testaments, Robinson Crusoe."
Norton, M.A. Power, E. Sewell, Mrs. Marquoid, Hesba Stretton, Florence Marryat, Elizabeth Wetherell, Sarah Tytler, C.C. Fraser-Tytler, C. Craik, Hon. Mrs. James Fenimore Cooper said in regard to the materials for American fiction: "There is a familiarity of the subject, a scarcity of events, and a poverty in the accompaniments that drive an author from the undertaking in despair."
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