Excerpt from The Gallery of Antiquities: An Old Maid

IN one Of the least important prefectures of France, in the middle Of a town, at the corner of a street, stands a house, but the names Of that town and street must be withheld from the reader, who will, no doubt, in the end appreciate the motives of this wise reserve which propriety demands. A writer lays his finger on many a sore in becoming the annalist of his era.

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