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and regret - pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions - that I was in danger of wearying the reader with personal confidences and private emotions. ¡¡¡¡Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it. ¡¡¡¡It would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know how sorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years
imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissing some portion of himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd of the creatures of his brain are going from him for ever. Yet, I had nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still), that no one can ever believe this Narrative, in the reading, more than I believed it in the writing.