Excerpt from The Adventures of Philip on His Way Through the World: Showing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him by to Which Is Prefixed a Shabby Genteel Story
When the "Shabby Genteel Story" was first reprinted with other stories and sketches by Mr. Thackeray, collected together under the title of "Miscellanies," the following note was appended to it: -
It was my intention to complete the little story, of which only the first part is here written. Perhaps novel-readers will understand, even from the above chapters, what was to ensue. Caroline was to be disowned and deserted by her wicked husband: that abandoned man was to marry somebody else: hence, bitter trials and grief, patience and virtue, for poor little Caroline, and a melancholy ending - as how should it have been gay? The tale was interrupted at a sad period of the writer's own life. The colours are long since dry: the artist's hand is changed. It is best to leave the sketch, as it was when first designed seventeen years ago. The memory of the past is renewed as he looks at it -
die Bilder froher Tage
Und manche liebe Schatten steigen auf.
Mr. Brandon, a principal character in this story, figures prominently in "The Adventures of Philip," under his real name of Brand Firmin: Mrs. Brandon, his deserted wife, and her father, Mr. Gann, are also introduced: therefore the "Shabby Genteel Story " is now prefixed to "The Adventures of Philip."
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