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Eros and anteros, or, The bachelor's ward. Campbell, Juliet H. L. (1823–1898).
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EROS AND ANTEROS.
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EROS AND ANTEROS; OR, The Bachelor's Ward.

BY

JUDITH CANUTE.

NEW YORK: RUDD & CARLETON, 310 BROADWAY.

1857.
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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by E. H. BUTLER & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. PRINTED BY R. CRAIGHEAD, Carton Building,
81 83, and 85 Centre Street

DEDICATION.

TO MY FATHER:—

IN the enthusiasm of composition (when these pages seemed more worthy than they now do), I had resolved to offer them to you. But, under the cool review just given them, their merits have strangely paled—their faults grown sadly palpable; and I find myself writing a letter of deprecation, rather than dedication!

The eye of affection is quick to detect a blemish, where it desires perfection; and you, my most partial critic, may be the least merciful. If I have failed to satisfy your wishes as an author, forget that I am such, and think of me only as a daughter. I hope, that, however much I may deserve correction in the one capacity, my loyal impulses, and instincts, have preserved me from error in the other.

I can only add, if there be anything in this little book which gives you pleasure, accept it as a tribute of gratitude for care, and culture, bestowed upon

YOUR DAUGHTER.

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PREFACE.

CERTAIN fanciful, and unreal, visiters having intruded upon occasional hours of solitude, with a persistence which defies all efforts for relief, I have been constrained to give them form and permanence, and send them trooping forth, commissioned to invade other sanctuaries, to importune other minds. Engaged upon a wider field of action, they return no more; and peace may have been earned, unless, indeed, a "swarm more hungry" succeeds them.

I can make no other apology for offering the public this crude result, of interludes of loneliness, and leisure. If, in the roar of more stirring scenes of the life drama page: viii-9 (Table of Contents) [View Page viii-9 (Table of Contents) ] appointed me, I have sometimes lost the tones of those inner voices, and given but faint and feeble echoes to the world, my punishment must be in the knowledge that these pages will fail to afford a pleasure to the reader, as deep and pure as that which they yielded

THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.

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