From the author's INTRODUCTION. A FRIEND of mine, who holds a distinguished position at one of the foreign courts, keeps, in his sombre bureau at the War Office, a beautiful miniature statuette of the god Pan. The exquisite ornament seemed more than ordinarily striking in such grim surroundings, and I begged my friend to tell me its history. It was a gift, he informed me, from the hereditary princess of a country which I must call Siguria. Then, as he was well aware of my psychological interests, he proceeded to tell me a ...
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From the author's INTRODUCTION. A FRIEND of mine, who holds a distinguished position at one of the foreign courts, keeps, in his sombre bureau at the War Office, a beautiful miniature statuette of the god Pan. The exquisite ornament seemed more than ordinarily striking in such grim surroundings, and I begged my friend to tell me its history. It was a gift, he informed me, from the hereditary princess of a country which I must call Siguria. Then, as he was well aware of my psychological interests, he proceeded to tell me a tale which pleased me so much that I made it into a romance, and also into a comedy. There are things in the romance which are omitted from the comedy, and there are things in the comedy which are omitted from the romance, and each must be regarded as a work quite independent of the other. An artist may paint any number of views of the same object, and a writer is allowed the same liberty. Thus, little essays are worked out into long histories, an anecdote may grow into a drama, and one passage from a biography may easily become an epic in many volumes. The letters, and journals, and documents, --placed by my friend at my disposal, -the actual facts of the story, have been as little tampered with as possible, and although I hope that no one will attempt to penetrate the necessary disguise of the characters represented, I also hope that no one will question the intrinsic truthfulness of the narrative as set down. The tale is mainly a love-tale, and it is notoriously difficult to ascertain what conversations really pass between lovers. Either they do not remember what they say, or they do not know what they say, or-which is likely enough-tJtey do not choose to take the world into their confidence. In this instance, however, I submitted my dialogue to the principal speakers, and they agreed, separately, and, to the best of my knowledge, without any secret understanding, that although they possibly said more than I have attributed to them, they did not say less. J. O.
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