Foretel me that some tender maid, whose grandmother is yet unborn, hereafter, when, under the
fictitious name of Sophia, she reads the real worth which once existed in my Charlotte, shall from her sympathetic breast send forth the heaving sigh.
Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no
fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
"And I reply to you, sir, that this abuse of power, this exile under a
fictitious name, are infamous!"
Still two years later appeared a version compounded of those of Tyndale and Coverdale and called, from the
fictitious name of its editor, the 'Matthew' Bible.
For sufficient reasons, which this narrative will itself unfold as it advances, a
fictitious name must be bestowed upon the old Cathedral town.
And since I am treating it in the comprehensive capacity of a representative book, I have taken the liberty of giving to both book and author
fictitious names. Perhaps it is in better taste, any how, to do this.
I do not say the story is true, for I did not witness the happenings which it portrays, but the fact that in the telling of it to you I have taken
fictitious names for the principal characters quite sufficiently evidences the sincerity of my own belief that it MAY be true.
Shielded by my own obscurity, and by the lapse of years, and a few
fictitious names, I do not fear to venture; and will candidly lay before the public what I would not disclose to the most intimate friend.
Some of the incidents contained in the following pages will be recognized, notwithstanding the substitution of
fictitious names, by such as have heard, from old men's lips, the fate of the few combatants who were in a condition to retreat after "Lovell's Fight."
He added Abdeljalil assumed a
fictitious name and resorted to misrepresentation and falsification of public documents that enabled him to reside in the country.
Morente stated that Abedeljalil assumed a
fictitious name which enabled him to reside in the country.
"Abdeljalil assumed a
fictitious name and resorted to misrepresentation and falsification of public documents, which enabled him to reside in the country," Morente pointed out.