Excerpt from Mistress of Men: A Novel Of reliable historical incident much is available, of equally reliable tradition still more; the whole going to make up a life marvellous in its romance, touching in its humanity.

In this sketch of it I have adhered in all matters of importance to the evidence of contemporaneous witnesses. That I have given 'a different complexion to them in many cases, I admit; but no careful student of character and motive could avoid doing so.

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