She, H.Rider Haggard
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SHE
By H. Rider Haggard
First Published 1886.
IN EARTH AND SKIE AND SEA STRANGE THYNGS THER BE
Doggerel couplet from the Sherd of Amenartas
I inscribe this history to
ANDREW LANGin token of personal regard and of my sincere admiration for his learning and his works
PREPARER'S NOTE
This text was prepared from an 1888 edition published by Longmans, Green, and Co.,London. A
number of fragments of Greek text, and sketches, have been omitted due to the difficulty of
representing them as plain text. However, small fragments of Greek have beentranscribed in brackets
"{}" using an Oxford English Dictionary alphabet table, without diacritical marks.
SHE
INTRODUCTION
In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as anadventure only, is I suppose one of the most
wonderful and mysterious experiences ever undergone by mortal men, I feel it incumbent on me to
explain what my exact connection with it is. And so Imay as well say at once that I am not the narrator
but only the editor of this extraordinary history, and then go on to tell how it found its way into my
hands.
Some years ago I, theeditor, was stopping with a friend, "vir doctissimus et amicus neus," at a certain
University, which for the purposes of this history we will call Cambridge, and was one day much
struckwith the appearance of two persons whom I saw going arm-in-arm down the street. One of these
gentlemen was I think, without exception, the handsomest young fellow I have ever seen. He wasvery
tall, very broad, and had a look of power and a grace of bearing that seemed as native to him as it is to
a wild stag. In addition his face was almost without flaw--a good face aswell as a beautiful one, and
when he lifted his hat, which he did just then to a passing lady, I saw that his head was covered with
little golden curls growing close to the scalp.
By H. Rider Haggard
First Published 1886.
IN EARTH AND SKIE AND SEA STRANGE THYNGS THER BE
Doggerel couplet from the Sherd of Amenartas
I inscribe this history to
ANDREW LANGin token of personal regard and of my sincere admiration for his learning and his works
PREPARER'S NOTE
This text was prepared from an 1888 edition published by Longmans, Green, and Co.,London. A
number of fragments of Greek text, and sketches, have been omitted due to the difficulty of
representing them as plain text. However, small fragments of Greek have beentranscribed in brackets
"{}" using an Oxford English Dictionary alphabet table, without diacritical marks.
SHE
INTRODUCTION
In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as anadventure only, is I suppose one of the most
wonderful and mysterious experiences ever undergone by mortal men, I feel it incumbent on me to
explain what my exact connection with it is. And so Imay as well say at once that I am not the narrator
but only the editor of this extraordinary history, and then go on to tell how it found its way into my
hands.
Some years ago I, theeditor, was stopping with a friend, "vir doctissimus et amicus neus," at a certain
University, which for the purposes of this history we will call Cambridge, and was one day much
struckwith the appearance of two persons whom I saw going arm-in-arm down the street. One of these
gentlemen was I think, without exception, the handsomest young fellow I have ever seen. He wasvery
tall, very broad, and had a look of power and a grace of bearing that seemed as native to him as it is to
a wild stag. In addition his face was almost without flaw--a good face aswell as a beautiful one, and
when he lifted his hat, which he did just then to a passing lady, I saw that his head was covered with
little golden curls growing close to the scalp.
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