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內容簡介 Book Excerpt: g-ridden. I got his manuscript before hedied, and this is his version of the affair, dated 1885: My doctor tells me that I need rest and change of air. It is notimprobable that I shall get both ere long--rest that neither thered-coated messenger nor the midday gun can break, and changeof air far beyond that which any homeward-bound steamer cangive me. In the meantime I am resolved to stay where I am; and, in flat defiance of my doctor's orders, to take all the world into myconfidence. You shall learn for yourselves the precise nature ofmy malady; and shall, too, judge for yourselves whether any manborn of woman on this weary earth was ever so tormented as I.Speaking now as a condemned criminal might speak ere thedrop-bolts are drawn, my story, wild and hideously improbable asit may appear, demands at least attention. That it will ever receivecredence I utterly disbelieve. Two months ago I should havescouted as mad or drunk the man who had dared tell me the like.Two months ago I was the hapRead Mo