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Uncle Silas
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Title: Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
Author: J. S. LeFanu
Release Date: January 31, 2005 [EBook #14851]
Language: English
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UNCLE SILAS
A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
By J. S. LeFanu
1899
TO THE RIGHT HON. THE COUNTESS OF GIFFORD, AS A TOKEN OF RESPECT, SYMPATHY, AND ADMIRATION This Tale IS INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR
A PRELIMINARY WORD
The writer of this Tale ventures, in his own person, to address a very few words, chiefly of explanation, to his readers. A leading situation in this 'Story of Bartram-Haugh' is repeated, with a slight variation, from a short magazine tale of some fifteen pages written by him, and published long ago in a periodical under the title of 'A Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess,' and afterwards, still anonymously, in a small volume under an altered title. It is very unlikely that any of his readers should have encountered, and still more so that they should remember, this trifle. The bare possibility, however, he has vent