title: Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
author:  Helene Cixous 
description: "Hilhne Cixous is today, in my view, the greatest writer in what I will call my language, the French language if you like. And I am weighing my words as I say that. For a great writer must be a poet-thinker, very much a poet and a very thinking poet." -- Jacques Derrida
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  # Precaution, Volume 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### James Fenimore Cooper
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  CHAPTER I.
  
  
  CHAPTER II.
  
  
  CHAPTER III.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV.
  
  
  CHAPTER V.
  
  
  CHAPTER VI.
  
  
  CHAPTER VII.
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII.
  
  
  CHAPTER IX.
  
  
  CHAPTER X.
  
  
  CHAPTER XI.
  
  
  CHAPTER XII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV.
  
  
  CHAPTER XV.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX.
  
  
  CHAPTER XX.
  
  
  CHAPTER XXII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XXIII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XXIV.
  
  
  CHAPTER XXV.
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### CHAPTER I.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  "I wonder if we are to have a neighbour in the Deanery soon,"
  
  
  inquired Clara Moseley, addressing herself to a small party, assembled
  
  
  in her father's drawing room, while standing at a window which
  
  
  commanded a distant view of the mansion in question.
  
  
    
  "Oh yes," replied her brother, "the agent has let it to a Mr.
  
  
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