THE TRUTH ABOUT TRISTREM VARICK
Reading edition
A NOVEL
BY EDGAR SALTUS
Author of "Mr. Incoul's Misadventure"
CHICAGO, NEW YORK, AND SAN FRANCISCO: BELFORD, CLARKE & CO. Publishers.
Copyright, 1888, by EDGAR SALTUS
TROW'S PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY, NEW YORK.
TO MY MASTER THE PHILOSOPHER OF THE UNCONSCIOUS EDUARD VON HARTMANN THIS ATTEMPT IN ORNAMENTAL DISENCHANTMENT IS DUTIFULLY INSCRIBED
New York, 15th February, 1888
"Truth is not always in white satin like a girl on her wedding-day. And when it is of mud and of blood, when it offends the nostrils, so much the worse; I, for one, will not sprinkle it with ottar of rose. Besides, I am not here to tell fairy tales and pastorals."