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'Lena Rivers
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Title: 'Lena Rivers
Author: Mary J. Holmes
Release Date: July 7, 2004 [EBook #12835]
Language: English
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'LENA RIVERS,
BY
MRS. MARY J. HOLMES.
AUTHOR OF
"TEMPEST AND SUNSHINE," "ENGLISH ORPHANS," "DARKNESS AND DAYLIGHT," "MARIAN GRAY," "ETHELYN'S MISTAKE," "CAMERON PRIDE," "EDNA BROWNING," "WEST LAWN," "EDITH LYLE," ETC., ETC.
MDCCCXCVII.
PREFACE.
If it be true, as some have said, that a secret is safer in a preface than elsewhere, it would be worse than folly for me to waste the "midnight oil," in the manufacture of an article which no one would read, and which would serve no purpose, save the adding of a page or so to a volume perhaps already too large. But I do not think so. I wot of a few who, with a horror of anything savoring of humbug, wade industriously through a preface, be it never so lengthy, hoping therein to find the moral, without which the story would, of course, be valueless. To such I would say, seek no further, for though I claim for "'Lena Rivers," a moral--yes, half a dozen
