Excerpt from Hard Cash, Vol. 1 of 3: A Matter-of-Fact Romance
"Hard Cash," like "The Cloister and the Hearth," is a matter-of-fact Romance; that is, a fiction built on troths: and these truths have been gathered by long, severe, systematic, labor, from a multitude of volumes, pamphlets, journals, reports, blue-books, manuscript narratives, letters, and living people, whom I have sought out, examined and cross-examined, to get at the truth on each main topic I have striven to handle.
The madhouse scenes have been picked out by certain disinterested gentlemen who keep private asylums, and periodicals to puff them; and have been met with bold denials of public facts and with timid personalities, and a little easy cant about Sensation* Novelists. But in reality those passages have been written on the same system as the nautical, legal, and other scenes.
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