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Armadale, by Wilkie Collins
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Title: Armadale
Author: Wilkie Collins
Posting Date: September 21, 2008 [EBook #1895] Release Date: September, 1999
Language: English
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ARMADALE
By Wilkie Collins
TO
JOHN FORSTER.
In acknowledgment of the services which he has rendered to the cause of literature by his "Life of Goldsmith;" and in affectionate remembrance of a friendship which is associated with some of the happiest years of my life.
Readers in general--on whose friendly reception experience has given me some reason to rely--will, I venture to hope, appreciate whatever merit there may be in this story without any prefatory pleading for it on my part. They will, I think, see that it has not been hastily meditated or idly wrought out. They will judge it accordingly, and I ask no more.
Readers in particular will, I have some reason to suppose, be here and there disturbed, perhaps even offended, by finding that "Armadale" oversteps, in more than one direction, the narrow limits within which they are disposed to restrict the development of modern fiction--if they can.
Nothing that I could say to these persons here would help me with them as Time will help me if my work lasts. I am not afraid of my de