Harold

, but to

deny

all connection with him. If in parts I may be thought to have drawn from myself, believe me it is but in parts, and I shall not own even to that.

[As]

to the

Monastic dome

, etc.

[1]

, I thought those circumstances would suit him as well as any other, and I could describe what I had seen better than I could invent. I would not be such a fellow as I have made my hero for all the world.