Excerpt from Cream: By Charles Reade Contains Jack of All Trades, a Matter-of-Fact Romance, and the Autobiography of a Thief

The readers of "It is never too late to mend" may remember that in vol. ii. the chaplain set the thief to write his life honestly. He was not to white-wash, and then gild himself, nor yet to vent one long self-deceiving howl of general, and therefore sham penitence, but he was to be, with God"s help, his own historian and sober critic. Accordingly Thomas Robinson wrote this autobiography - in gaol: and my readers may have noticed that at first I intended to print it with the novel.

It cost me a struggle to resign this intention; for it was the central gem of my little coronet.

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