The “Good Hope” BOOK IV.—THE DISGUISE BOOK V.—CROOKBACK The Battle of Shoreby Night in the Woods Dick and Joan MARKHEIM 1 1 THE BLACK ARROW A TALE OF THE TWO ROSES 2 2 3 3 CRITIC ON THE HEARTH No one but myself knows what I have suffered, nor what my books have gained, by your unsleeping watchfulness and admirable pertinacity. And now here is a volume that goes into the world and lacks your imprimatur: a strange thing in our joint lives; and the reason of it stranger still! I have watched with interest, with pain, and at length with amusement, your unavailing attempts to peruse “The Black Arrow”; and I think I should lack humour indeed, if I let the occasion slip and did not place your name in the fly-leaf of the only book of mine that you have never read—and never will read.
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