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of my novels appeared under your signature in the Revue des Deux Mondes. I read that article, at the time of its appearanc

rendered into French by your pen. Your excellent translation of “The Lighthouse” had already taught me how to appreciate the value of your assistance; and when “The Dead Secret” appeared in its French form, although I was sensibly grati

the dedication of this book, as the earliest acknowledgment which it has been in m

hope to cultivate, to better and better purpose, for many more. Allow me, by inscribing the collection to you, to secure one reader for it at the outset of its progress through the