Excerpt from Idolatry, Vol. 1: A Romance
Not the intrinsic merits of this story embolden me to inscribe it to you, my dear friend, but the fact that you, more than any man, are responsible for its writing. Your advice and encouragement first led me to book-making; so it is only fair that you should partake of whatever obloquy (or honour) the practice may bring upon me.
The ensuing pages may incline you to suspect their author of a repugnance to unvarnished truth; but - without prejudice to Othello - since varnish brings out in wood veins of beauty invisible before the application, why not also in the sober facts of life?
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