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Excerpt from The Carpetbagger: A Novel
Many plays have been made from novels; this is a book made from a play. "The Carpetbagger" originally was written as a four-act comedy. It was performed for thirty weeks during the theatrical season of 1898-9, under the intelligent management of Mr. Tim Murphy, and met with a most flattering reception. There have been so many requests for the preservation of this story in permanent form, that we have been led to publish it as a novel, and the result is before you.
Don't search your histories for the Carpetbagger herein introduced. He isn't there, Our Carpetbagger is not one who really was, but one who might have been. We have not written history; but we have told much truth, a virtue which not all history possesses. The character of Melville Crance is consistent with the times in which he lived; consistent with the Yankee nature - with that of any man who, though gone astray, knows the road that leads back to honesty.
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