Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909. The Brick Moon, and Other Stories
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   [No. This story also is "Invented Example." But it is founded on facts. It is a pleasure to me, writing fifty-four years after the commission intrusted to me by the late Mrs. Fales, to say that that is a real name, and that her benevolence at a distance is precisely represented here.

   Perhaps the large history of the world would be differently written but for that kindness of hers.

   I was a very young clergyman, and the remittance she made to me was the first trust of the same kind which had ever been confided to me.]