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For Hanna and Katie
and for Christin,
who have brought joy into my life.
No age lives entirely alone; every civilization is formed not merely by its own achievements but by what it has inherited from the past. If these things are destroyed, we have lost a part of our past, and we shall be the poorer for it .
—M AJOR R ONALD B ALFOUR
To me Barset has been a real county, and its city a real city, and the spires and towers have been before my eyes, and the voices of the people are known to my ears, and the pavement of the city ways are familiar to my footsteps.
—A NTHONY T ROLLOPE