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Excerpt from Anna Clayton; Or the Mother's Trial: A Tale of Real Life The unexpected favor with which "Anna Clayton" has been received by the public, requiring another and larger edition within a few hours from its first appearance, shows that "Real Life" has not yet lost its charms, amidst tho wild vagaries of fiction and romance. Tho principal characters and scenes in this "tale" are drawn from life. Imagination cannot picture deeper shades of sadness, higher or more exquisite joys, stranger labyrinthine mazes, than truth has woven for us in "Tub Mother's Trial." Hero, in the heart of New England, lived, and, for aught we know, still live, our prototypes. Tho same blighting influences are even now insidiously creeping around our firesides; and, while we disclaim either bitterness or prejudice toward those who are blindly led, we would raise tho finger of warning against tho leaders in this "Mystery of Iniquity." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.