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Dedication

RANDELL HUNT, ESQ.
OF LOUISIANA.

I am reminded, in putting forth this little volume, or the
friendly interest which you took, nearly twelve years ago, in
the fortunes of another work of similar dimensions—my first
experiment in prose literature, Martin Faber,—which was then
issued from the press. The inscription of the present volume
with your name, may serve to recal, not unpleasantly to
your memory, with the circumstances of that period, the
recollection of

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