Teks asli (Inggris)

By Charles Reade I dedicate all that is good in this work to my mother.—C. R., NOTE. THIS story was written three years ago, and one or two topics in it are not treated exactly as they would be if written by the same hand to-day. But if the author had retouched those pages with his colors of 1853, he would (he thinks) have destroyed the only merit they have, viz., that of containing genuine contempor