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PREFATORY NOTE.
premature to enter. But none seem of such importance as to forbid the endeavour, by a careful review of those facts in the life of George Sand which most justly represent her character as a whole, and were the determining influences on her career and on her work, to arrive at truth and completeness of general outline, the utmost it is possible to hope to accomplish in this little volume.
Bertha Thomas.
