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And thus I bid my auditors,—Adieu! If with any pleasure you have listened to my story, with greater pleasure have I told it unto you. Even now, as I indite these lines I feel strangely reluctant to frame the closing sentence. Willingly would I prolong the theme, for many things yet remain untold. And it may be, that if haply this 'abstract and brief chronicle' shall win your favour, I may hereafter resume the thread of my discourse, and further divulge the fortunes of

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