Julian Hawthorne

A Dream and a Forgetting: a Story Julian Hawthorne

To ROBERT CARTER, Esq. NOT tlio intrinsic mcriU of this story onil)oM cn mo to inscribe it to yon, luy doar friend; Lnt Uio fiict tluit you, moro than any other man, nro rc8i)onsihlo fur its -writing. Your aih ico ami ene4)umgeniont first led mo to lM xk-nmkin ;; so it is only fair that you should jxirtako .of wliatover oblo(iny (or honor) the practice may bring jxn mo. The ensuing pages may incline you to sus|KH;t tlicir autlior of a ropugnanex) to unvaniishod truth; but, with out pn judice toO thello, since varnish brings out in wood veins of beiuty invisible Wforo the application, why ;not also in the sober fiicts of life? When the tmiisparont artifice has been i)enetnited, the familiar substinco under: ne4th will be greeted none the liss kindly; nay, tlio obser cr will perhaps reganl the disguise as an oblique compliment to his jiowers of insight, and his attention may thus bo better secured than had the subject worn its ovcry-day dress. Striojisly, the most matter-of-fact lifo has moods when the light of romance seems to gild its earthen chimney-pots into fairy minarets; and, were the story-teller but sure of laying his kinds upon tho true gold, perhaps tho more his story liod of it, tho bettor.
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