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[Illustration: ROLAND GRAEME AND CATHERINE SETON BEFORE QUEEN MARY.]
THE ABBOT.
BEING THE SEQUEL TO THE MONASTERY.
By Sir Walter Scott
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INTRODUCTION--(1831.)
From what is said in the Introduction to the Monastery, it must
necessarily be inferred, that the Author considered that romance as
something very like a failure. It is true, the booksellers did not