Though I want you to accept the book as a work of fiction, who knows whether there may not be a great deal of truth in it? But whether there is or not, one thing is certain--there is no moral in the story: and if this is not a literary excellence of a very high order, perhaps somebody will tell me what is. A little more, perhaps, might be said about Curling and his wife, if I were not sure that you had long ago settled in your mind that Curling would one day become good friends with his mother-in-law. If I add that at this time of writing, he has been a partner for seven years in the banking firm of Hargrave and Co., the sequel of _his_ matrimonial adventure will be as fully related as if a volume were devoted to that purpose. THE END. CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS, CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. Archaic or alternate spelling has been retained from the original. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Jilted!, by William Clark Russell