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Excerpt from In Good Company: Some Personal Recollections of Swinburne, Lord Roberts, Watts-Dunton, Oscar Wilde, Edward Whymper, S. J. Stone, Stephen Phillips
To the second indictment I plead guilty, but my best excuse for the publication of this volume is that I write while the first indictment fails. My memory is still good, and the one thing which seems most worth remembering in my life is my undeservedly fortunate friendships.
In writing Of my friends and Of those with whom I was associated, I am, therefore, I believe, giving Of my best. I ought to add that these papers were penned for inclusion in a volume of frankly personal and intimate Recollections. A work of that sort is the one book Of his life in which an author is allowed some freedom from convention. That is why I hope to be pardoned should any passage.
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