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author William E Doubleday. Books Fiction William E Doubleday
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Proofreading Team.           <p>PREFACE.</p><br />  The real
romance of Haddon Hall is a sweet, old-world idyll of singular
attractiveness and interest. The gems of the story have been
reset by dramatists in different surroundings; but while, as in
the Sullivan-Grundy opera, many of its chief incidents have been
retained, many have been omitted.  In the old story there are no
Puritans, and not one solitary Scotchman appears upon the scene.
The original drama was enacted in the pastoral days of "Good
Queen Bess," when the Tudor Queen was still young and beautiful,
and  "When all the world was young, lad,  And all the trees were
green;  And every goose a swan, lad,  And every lass a queen."
Haddon Hall, the scene of the story, is situated at the foot of
the Peak, between Bakewell and Chatswo