of the people are known to my ears, and the pavement of the city ways are familiar to my footsteps.  To them all I now say farewell.  That I have been induced to wander among them too long by my love for old friendships, and by the sweetness of old faces, is a fault for which I may perhaps be more readily forgiven, when I repeat, with solemnity of assurance, that promise made in my title, that this shall be the last chronicle of Barset.

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