Angelina: Or, The Mystery of St. Mark's Abbey — page 12: what you’re looking at

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PREFACE. PREFACES, from time immemorial, have been made the mere vehicles of puff; but when the work is completed ere the Preface is written, it becomes the pleasant medium of ex- pressing the author’s gratitude for the support his efforts to please have met with. The latter is the task of the author of “ ANGELINA,” which, thanks to the liberality of the public, has been one of his most successful productions, and not, he trusts he may be allowed to say, without deserving it. This romance was originally published in that most popular of all the cheap periodicals, “THz PENNY SUNDAY TIMES, AND PeopLe’s Potice Gazerts,” and the extraordinary favour with which it was received induced the proprietor of that ex- cellent journal to republish it in its present form; and the author feels that he should be very much wanting in grati- tude, did he not take the present opportunity of returning his sincere thanks for the flattering encomiums bestowed upon it by the préss, and the public in general. The encouragement he has received, will stimulate him to fresh and increased exertions to please; and he EO AUG JOO (SO)