I have thought proper to premise thus much, lest the incredible tale I have to tell should be considered rather the raving of a crude imagination, than the positive experience of a mind to which the reveries of fancy have been a dead letter and a nullity.

an animal rightist

No, he is not poor at all. My father has got a good farm, and is quite forehanded.

Agape, astonished or wide open, is a heteronym of agape, Christian love.