And yet he thinks that the outlines are filled in more carefully, and the situations (however simple) more warmly colored and quickened, than a reader would expect to find in what is called a "legend." And he knows that any son of Exmoor, chancing on this volume, cannot fail to bring to mind the nurse tales of his childhood - the savage deeds of the outlaw Doones in the depth of Bagworthy Forest, the beauty of the hapless maid brought up in the midst of them, the plain John Ridd's Herculean power, and (memory's too congenial food) the exploits of Tom Faggus. And in shaping this old tale, the writer neither dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historic novel. Item #685 This work is called a "romance" because the incidents, characters, time, and scenery, are alike romantic. Small stain at bottom of Vol II dust jacket and a ring mark on back of Vol I dust jacket. Both books in fine condition, having been protected by the original issue dust jackets. Each book with it's own stiff cloth dust jacket with gold stamped spines. Among the riders there is none whose safe return I watch for- I mean none more than any other- and indeed there seems no risk.Philadelphia: Henry T. You must be tired of this story, and the time I take to think, and the weariness of my telling but my life from day to day shows so little variance. Often too I wonder at the odds of fortune, which made me (helpless as I am, and fond of peace, and reading), the heiress of this mad domain.
Nothing, I mean, which I can grasp, and have with any surety nothing but faint images, and wonderment, and wandering. If I look for help to those around me, who should tell me right and wrong (being older and much wiser), I meet sometimes with laughter, and at other times with anger. I know not where the beginning was, nor where the middle ought to be, nor even how at the present time I feel, or think, or ought to think.
“I cannot go through all my thoughts, so as to make them clear to you, nor have I ever dwelt on things, to shape a story of them.
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