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Excerpt from Wenderholme, Vol. 1 of 3: A Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire
Mination, or very peculiar circumstances of birth, can get through them, or over them; But the novelist must get over them, and when once he has done so, it is likely that he will see some thing to approve oil-something that attracts his sympathy - in men whom the boundary lines of society have set apart as his natural enemies. He may have his moments of misanthropy, but he will always be meeting with some visible and undeniable fact in actual life that will not allow him to be a misanthropist for long. He hated some nation or class, but on coming to know it better he' sees some admirable traits which cast, as it were, a spoonful of alkali into the acid vial of his wrath. He despised some old woman because she was stingy; but finding out afterwards that she has been denying her self to save for poor nephews and nieces, he discovered that stinginess might possibly be a virtue. He scorned some Papist for believing too much, some doubter for believing too little; but on a nearer view found out that the Papist was by no means wanting either in information or common-sense, and that the sceptic had 'a sense.
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