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THE MONASTERY.

THE

MONASTERY.

A ROMANCE.

BY THE AUTHOR OF “WAVERLEY,"

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

SOLD BY J. MURRAY, BOOKSELLER,

ALBEMARLE STREET.

1821.

INTRODUCTORY EPISTLE

FROM

CAPTAIN CLUTTERBUCK,

OF HIS MAJESTY'S - REGIMENT OF INFANTRY,

TO

THE AUTHOR OF “WAVERLEY."

SIR,

ALTHOUGH I do not pretend to the pleasure of your personal acquaintance, like many who I believe to be equally strangers to you, I am nevertheless interested in your publications, and desire their continuance;-not that I pretend to much taste in fictitious composition, or that I'am apt to be interested in your grave scenes, or amused by those which are meant to be lively. I will not disguise from you, that I have yawned over the last interview of MacIvor and his sister, and fell fairly asleep while the schoolmaster was reading the humours of Dandie Dinmont. You see, sir, that I scorn to solicit your favour in a way to which you are no stranger. If the papers I enclose you are

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