Excerpt from Blighted Ambition, or the Rise and Fall of the Earl of Somerset, Vol. 1 of 3: A Romance
Latitude to Fancy, not with any view of distorting the truths we would com manicate, but to connect the details of our narrative, much in the same way as the carpenters, who erected the Pavilion on Woolwich Common, gilded the ropes which support its can vas roof, rather for decoration, than for strength. We have not, however, allowed ourselves to be drawn by the dominion of Fancy, beyond the line.
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