SUSAN WARNER
Reading edition
AUTHOR OF "THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD."
"Well begun is half done."
LONDON: JAMES NISBET & CO., 21 BERNERS STREET
NOTE TO THE READER.
As in the case of "My Desire," the turning facts of this story are fact; even to the most romantic and unlikely detail. In this is found, I hope, my justification for making the hero in one place repeat something very like what was said by the hero of Queechy on a like occasion. I was unwilling to disturb the absolute truth of the story, so far as I had it.