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YOU WILL REJOICE to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.
In the flattest and least ageeable part of the country of Essex, about five miles from the sea, is situated a village or small town, which may be known in these pages by the name of Longfield.
The opening scene of this tale took place in a little village on the southern coast of Cornwall.
Scene; a beautiful plain, shadowed on one side by an overhanging rock, on the other a chesnut wood.
Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable.
After a long series of civil dissension-after many battles, whose issue involved the fate of thousands-after the destruction of nearly all the English nobility in the contest between the two Roses, the decisive battle of Bosworth Field was fought on the 22d of August, 1415, whose result was to entwine, as it was called, the white and red symbols of rivalship, and to restore peace to this unhappy country.