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Third Epic.

The story, continued by Walter Hartwright.

Chapter 1.

I open a new page.

I advance my narrative by one week.

The history of the interval, which I thus pass over, must remain unrecorded.

My heart turns faint, my mind sinks in darkness and confusion when I think of it.

This must not be, if I who write am to guide as I ought, you who read.

This must not be, if the clue that leads through the windings of the story

is to remain from end to end untangled in my hands.

A life suddenly changed.

Its whole purpose created a fresh, its hopes and fears, its struggles, its interests,

and its sacrifices, all turned at once and forever into a new direction.

This is the prospect which now opens before me, like the burst of view from a mountain's top.

I left my narrative in the quiet shadow of Limeridge Church.

I resume it one week later in the stir in turmoil of a London street.

The street is in a populous and a poor neighborhood.

The ground floor of one of the houses in it is occupied by a small news vendor shop.

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