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Excerpt from Temptation and Atonement, and Other Tales, Vol. 3 of 3
Last Spring I screwed my courage to the sticking-place, resolved that, before the season was over, a portion at least of the fruits of my sweet and bitter experience should be committed to paper, that this century of seemings might bequeath to posterity one plain, unvarnished, daguerreotyped portrait of its features; and, shivering under the in?u ence of a bitter February, and severe fit of the in?uenza, which left me phthisicky, mo rose, and moral, Opened with suitable dignity the ream of foolscap with which Houghton had armed me for my first literary campaign.
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