We must ask pardon of the public for offering it this book, and give it due warning of what it will find therein.
The public loves fictitious novels! this is a true novel.
It loves books which make a pretence of introducing their readers to fashionable society: this book deals with the life of the street.
It loves little indecent books, memoirs of courtesans, alcove confessions, erotic obscenity, the scandal tucked away in pictures in a...
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