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Title: One Day
A sequel to 'Three Weeks'

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: October 18, 2004 [EBook #13776]

Language: English

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ONE DAY

A SEQUEL TO "THREE WEEKS"

ANONYMOUS

Original Publication Date 1909, by The Macaulay Company

NEW YORK THE MACAULAY COMPANY 1912

THE SCHILLING PRESS NEW YORK

FOREWORD TO MY AMERICAN FRIENDS

Now after spending some very pleasant weeks in your interesting country,
I feel sure that this book will find many sympathetic readers in
America. Quite naturally it will be discussed; some, doubtless, will
censure it--and unjustly; others will believe with me that the tale
teaches a great moral lesson.

Born as the Boy was born, the end which Fate forced upon him, to me, was
inevitable. Each word and act of the three weeks of his parents'
love-idyl must reflect in the character and life of the child. Little by
little the baby King grew before my mental vision until I saw at last
there was no escape from his importunity and I allowed the insistent
Boy--masterful even from his inception--to shape himself at his own
sweet will. Thus he became the hero of my study.

This is not a book for children or fools--but for men and women who can
grasp the underlying principle of morality which has been uppermost in
my mind as I wrote. Those who can see beyond the outburst of
passion--the overmastering belief in the power of love to justify all
things, which the Boy inherited so naturally from his Queen mother--will
understand the forces against which the young Prince must needs fight a
losing battle. The transgression was unavoidable to one whose very
conception was beyond the law--the punishment was equally inevitable.

In fairness to this book of mine--and to me--the great moral lesson I
have endeavored to teach must be considered in its entirety, and no
single episode be construed as the book's sole aim. The verdict on my
two years' work rests with you, dear Reader