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Excerpt from Standard Novels: Headlong Hall; Nightmare Abbey; Maid Marian; Crotchet Castle Literary, is as imposing as ever: the rulers of the world still feel things. In their effects, and never foresee them in their causes; and political mountebanks continue, and will continue, to puff nostrums and practise leger demain under the eyes of the multitude; following, like the learned friend of Crotchet Castle, a course as tortuous as that of a river, but in a reverse process; beginning by being dark and deep, and ending by being transparent. 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.