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HEROINE,

OR

ADVENTURES

OF

CHERUBINA,

BY

EATON STANNARD BARRETT, ESQ.

"L'Histoire d'une femme est toujours un Roman."

This Edition.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR HENRY COLBURN,

PUBLIC LIBRARY, CONDUIT-STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE,
AND SOLD BY BELL and BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH,
AND JOHN CUMMING, DUBLIN. «

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B. CLARKE, Printer, Well-street, London.

Sir,

TO THE

RIGHT HONORABLE

GEORGE CANNING,

&c. &c. &c.

It was the happiness of STERNE to have dedicated his volumes to a PITT. It is my ambition to inscribe this work to you. My wishes would be complete, could I resemble the writer as you do the statesman.

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

Your most sincere,

and most humble servant,

E. S. BARRETT.

AS །༧ཡ .

1

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THE HEROINE TO THE READER.

Moon, May 1, 1813.

ATTEND, gentle and intelligent reader; for I am not the fictitious personage whose memoirs whose memoirs you will peruse in "The Heroine;" but I am a corporeal being, and an inhabitant of the Moon...

Know, that the.momenta.mortal manuscript is written in a legible hand, and the word End or Finis annexed, whatever characters happen. to be sketched therein (whether imaginary, biographical, or historical), acquire the quality of creating a soul or spirit, which takes immediate flight, and ascends through the regions of air, till it arrives at the MOON; where it is then embodied, and becomes a living creature the precise counterpart, in mind and person, of its literary prototype.

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