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The following story, the first published by the author, ritten nineteen years ago, at a ti his way to a method The principles observed in its composition are, no doubt, too exclusively those in which lement, surprise, andinterest; but some of the scenes, and at least one of the characters, have been deeer preservation; and as they could hardly be reproduced in a fragmentary form the novel is reissued complete --the more readily that it has for some considerable time been reprinted and widely circulated in A note I have only to add that, in the present edition of 'Desperate Remedies,' some Wessex towns and other places that are common to the scenes of several of these stories have been called for the first time by the names under which they appear elsewhere, for the satisfaction of any reader who may care for consistency in such e; for, as it happened that certain characteristics which provoked most discussion in my latest story were present in this my first--published in 1871, when there was no French name for them it has seemed best to let them stand unaltered

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February 1896