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Title: She

Author: H. Rider Haggard

Release Date: April 4, 2006 [EBook #3155]
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Produced by John Bickers; Dagny; William Kyngesburye; David Widger

SHE

By H. Rider Haggard

First Published 1886.

IN EARTH AND SKIE AND SEA

STRANGE THYNGS THER BE

Doggerel couplet from the

Sherd of Amenartas

I inscribe this history to

ANDREW LANG

in token of personal regard

and of

my sincere admiration for his learning and his works

ORIGINAL PREPARER'S NOTE

This text was prepared from an 1888 edition published by Longmans,
Green, and Co., London. A number of fragments of Greek text, and
sketches, have been omitted due to the difficulty of representing
them as plain text. However, small fragments of Greek have been
transcribed in brackets "{}" using an Oxford English Dictionary
alphabet table, without diacritical marks.

PREPARER'S NOTE--UNICODE EDITION

A number of fragments of Greek and other text, omitted from the
original posting, have been restored in this Unicode text.
Sketches, however, have not yet been restored.

SHE

INTRODUCTION

In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as an adventure
only, is I suppose one of the most wonderful and mysterious experiences
ever undergone by mortal men, I feel it incumbent on me to explain what
my exact connection with it is. And so I may as well say at once that I
am not the narrator but only the editor of this extraordinary history,
and then go on to tell how it found its way into my hands.

Some years ago I, the editor, was stopping with a friend, "_vir
doctissimus et amicus neus_," at a certain University, which for the
purposes of this history we will call Cambridge, and was one day much
struck with the appearance of two persons whom I saw going arm-in-arm
down the street. One of these gentlemen was I think, without exception,
the handsomest young fellow I have ever seen. He was very tall, v