“Alas,” beams the Revd, “must we place our unqualified Faith in the Implement, as the Tale accompting for its Presence,— these Family stories have been perfected in the hellish Forge of Domestick Recension, generation ’pon generation, till what survives is the pure truth, anneal’d to Mercilessness, about each Figure, no matter how stretch’d, nor how influenced over the years by all Sentiments from unreflective love to inflexible Dislike.” “Don’t leave out Irresponsible Embellishment.” “Rather, part of the common Duty of Remembering,— surely our Sentiments,— how we dream’d of, and were mistaken
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