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THE PURPLE CLOUD
By
M.P. Shiel
1901
[Greek: estai kai Samos ammos, eseitai Daelos adaelos]
_Sibylline Prophecy_
INTRODUCTION
About three months ago--that is to say, toward the end of May of this
year of 1900--the writer whose name appears on the title-page received
as noteworthy a letter, and packet of papers, as it has been his lot to
examine. They came from a very good friend of mine, whose name there is
no reason that I should now conceal--Dr. Arthur Lister Browne, M.A.
(Oxon.), F.R.C.P. It happened that for two years I had been spending
most of my time in France, and as Browne had a Norfolk practice, I had
not seen him during my visits to London. Moreover, though our friendship
was of the most intimate kind, we were both atrocious correspondents: so
that only two notes passed between us during those years.
Till, last May, there reached me the letter--and the packet--to which I
refer.
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