My excuse for modifying the title of this book is, that _A Drama in Muslin_ has long seemed to me to be the vulgar one among the titles of my many books. But to change the title of a book that has been in circulation, however precarious, for more than thirty years, is not permissible, and that is why I rejected the many titles that rose up in my mind while correcting the proofs of this new edition. In _Neophytes_, _Débutantes_, and _The Baiting of Mrs. Barton_, readers would have divined a new story, but the dropping out of the unimportant word 'drama' will not deceive the most casual follower of literature. The single word 'muslin' is enough. _Mousseline_ would be more euphonious, a fuller,…
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