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TO MRS. ELLIOT,
Word Count: 490
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Released on: 19/11/2017
DEANERY,
ation of this book, in remembrance of an
ed to produce and sustain interest in this central personage of my story, it does not become me to speak. It is for my readers to say if "Lucilla" has found her way to their sympathies. In this character, and more especially again in the characters of "Nugent Dubourg" and "Madame Pratolungo," I have tried to present human nature in its inherent inconsistencies and self-contradictions - in its intricate mixture of good and evil, of great and small - as I see it in the world about me. But the faculty of observing character is so rare, the curiously mistaken tendency to look for logical consistency in human motives and human actions is so general, that I may possibly find the execut
e conditions of human happiness are independent of bodily affliction, and that it is even possible for bodily affliction itself to take its place among the ingredients of happ
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h, 1872.
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1 TO MRS. ELLIOT,2 Note to the Present Edition3 Part the First Chapter the First4 Chapter the Second5 Chapter the Third6 Chapter the Fourth7 Chapter the Fifth8 Chapter the Sixth9 Chapter the Seventh10 Chapter the Eighth11 Chapter the Ninth12 Chapter the Tenth13 Chapter the Eleventh14 Chapter the Twelfth15 Chapter the Thirteenth16 Chapter the Fourteenth17 Chapter the Fifteenth18 Chapter the Sixteenth19 Chapter the Seventeenth20 Chapter the Eighteenth21 Chapter the Nineteenth22 Chapter the Twentieth23 Chapter the Twenty-First24 Chapter the Twenty-Second25 Chapter the Twenty-Third26 Chapter the Twenty-Fourth27 Chapter the Twenty-Fifth28 Chapter the Twenty-Sixth29 Chapter the Twenty-Seventh30 Chapter the Twenty-Eighth31 Chapter the Twenty-Ninth32 Chapter the Thirtieth33 Chapter the Thirty-First34 Chapter the Thirty-Second35 Chapter the Thirty-Third36 Part the Second Chapter the Thirty-Fourth37 Chapter the Thirty-Fifth38 Chapter the Thirty-Sixth39 Chapter the Thirty-Seventh40 Chapter the Thirty-Eighth41 Chapter the Thirty-Ninth42 Chapter the Fortieth43 Chapter the Forty-First44 Chapter the Forty-Second45 Chapter the Forty-Third46 Chapter the Forty-Fourth47 Chapter the Forty-Fifth48 Chapter the Forty-Sixth49 Chapter the Forty-Seventh50 Chapter the Forty-Eighth51 Chapter the Forty-Ninth52 Chapter the Fiftieth53 Epilogue