Front matter

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Transcriber's Notes:

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2. The diphthong oe is represented by [oe].

                          THE
   
                   HONOUR OF SAVELLI
   
   
   
                      _A ROMANCE_
   
   
   
   
   
                           BY
   
                    S. LEVETT YEATS
   
   
   
   
   
                        NEW YORK
                D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
                          1895
   
   
   
   
   
   
                    Copyright, 1895,
              By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
   
   
   
   
   
   
                        PREFACE.
   

Is writing this book the Author has made no effort to point a moral; all that has been done is an attempt to catch the "spirit of the true Romance," and to amuse. The book was partly written in the intervals of work in India, and was completed during the leisure allowed by furlough on medical certificate. In dealing with this period of Italian history, in which the story is set, the Author would say he has taken Dumas for his model, but hopes that he has worked out his scheme on original lines; and he has used, as far as possible, the language in which an Italian living in the beginning of the sixteenth century would express himself. At the time the book was written the Author had not read Mr. Stanley Weyman's brilliant novel, "A Gentleman of France." Had he done so the style of the present book would doubtless have been much improved from the lessons taught by a master-hand. The Author, in bringing this to the notice of the reader, would humbly add that he is making no challenge to break a lance with so redoubted a knight as the creator of Gaston de Marsac.

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