Hard Cash. Charles Reade Reade

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BERESFORD.'”

       “LUCY DODD.”

       CHAPTER XXVII

       CHAPTER XXVIII

       ALFRED.'

       CHAPTER XXIX

       CHAPTER XXX

       CHAPTER XXXI

       “MARGARET BLACK.

       CHAPTER XXXII

       CHAPTER XXXIII

       CHAPTER XXXIV

       CHAPTER XXXV

       CHAPTER XXXVI

       CHAPTER XXXVII

       CHAPTER XXXVIII

       “RICHARD HARDIE”

       CHAPTER XXXIX

       CHAPTER XL

       CHAPTER XLI

       CHAPTER XLI

       CHAPTER XLII

       CHAPTER XLIII

       IF we could always know at the time what we are doing.

       CHAPTER XLIV

       “LUCY DODD.”

       CHAPTER XLV

       CHAPTER XLVI

       “JOHN COMPTON.”

       “LUCY DODD”

       CHAPTER XLVII

       CHAPTER XLVIII.

       CHAPTER XLIX.

       CHAPTER L

       LAW

       CHAPTER LI

       CHAPTER LII

       CHAPTER LIII

       NOAH SKINNER.

       L. 14,010: 12: 6.

       CHAPTER LIV

       Table of Contents

      “HARD CASH,” like “The Cloister and the Hearth,” is a matter-of-fact Romance—that is, a fiction built on truths; and these truths have been gathered by long, severe, systematic labour, from a multitude of volumes, pamphlets, journals, reports, blue-books, manuscript narratives, letters, and living people, whom I have sought out, examined, and cross-examined, to get at the truth on each main topic I have striven to handle.

      The madhouse scenes have been picked out by certain disinterested gentlemen, who keep private asylums, and periodicals to puff them; and have been met with bold denials of public facts, and with timid personalities, and a little easy cant about Sensation* Novelists; but in reality those passages have been written on the same system as the nautical, legal, and other scenes: the best evidence has been ransacked; and a large portion of this evidence I shall be happy to show at my house to any brother writer who is disinterested, and really cares enough for truth and humanity to walk or ride a mile in pursuit of them.

      CHARLES READE.

       6 BOLTON ROW, MAYFAIR,

       December 5, 1868.

      * This slang term is not quite accurate as applied to me.

       Without sensation there can be no interest: but my plan is

       to mix a little character and a little philosophy with the

       sensational element.

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