Excerpt from The Widow of Calcutta, Vol. 1 of 2: The Half-Caste Daughter; And Other Sketches
Whilst the manners of the fashionable world are described or caricatured on all sides, and by the pen of almost every novelist, - whilst our villages glow beneath the brilliant and bewitch ing pencil of Miss Mitford, - little compara tively is known of our provincial towns. Ma nufacture and trade produce but indifferent heroes and heroines, but they form an import ant feature in our social condition. In knighthood I have endeavoured to see what could be made of such a subject; and.
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