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"For this relief, much thanks. " -- _Hamlet._
My story is getting rather difficult to manage now. Indeed, I don't quite see how to do. I _think_, if I had known how long it would be, and what a lot of half-holidays I should have to stay in to write it, I _think_ I would never have begun it. But I won't be laughed at for "beginning, and not ending. " And if I get it rather muddley, and can't do it the way authors do who know how to plan stories, and write them so that they seem all to come of themselves, like flowers growing, you good people, whoever you are, that come to read it must forgive me and believe I did my best.