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DEDICATION To Madame la Duchesse de Richelieu MADAME LA DUCHESSE, Permit me to beg your acceptance of this work, as a respectful tribute of my friendship. I feel some hesitation in offering it, for its theme can not be deemed altogether correct; but I have endeavored to make its expression, at least, in harmony with good taste, and I trust that my endeavors have been successful. This record is the journal of a summer of my life, in which I have changed nothing, not even the d