Excerpt from Sunnybank
I have the vanity to believe that the many readers of "Alone" - whom I account my friends - will not be sorry to recognize, here and there, an old acquaintance as they turn the leaves of this volume. I hope - less confidently, perhaps, but earnestly - that they will like the familiar faces none the less for the years that have gone over them since their last meeting; which have added matronly dignity to Ida"s carriage and speech, left sly lines upon Ellen"s arch face, and frosted Charley"s beard.
For the characters, plot, and general machinery of the story, I am responsible. But bearing, as it does, the date of an era of political convulsions and civil conflict, it was inevitable that these should have a certain influence in determining the complexion of the narrative. Whenever I have treated of such topics, I have adhered strictly to the truth; have stated only what I knew, for myself, to be fact.
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