[精品]GEORGESILVERMAN’SEXPLANATION(乔治斯尔曼的理由).pdf

GEORGE SILVERMANS EXPLANATION GEORGE SILVERMANS EXPLANATION 1 GEORGE SILVERMANS EXPLANATION FIRST CHAPTER IT happened in this wise - But, sitting with my pen in my hand looking at those words again, without descrying any hint in them of the words that should follow, it comes into my mind that they have an abrupt appearance. They may serve, however, if I let them remain, to suggest how very difficult I find it to begin to explain my explanation. An uncouth phrase: and yet I do not see my way to a better. 2 GEORGE SILVERMANS EXPLANATION SECOND CHAPTER IT happened in THIS wise - But, looking at those words, and comparing them with my former opening, I find they are the self-same words repeated. This is the more surprising to me, because I employ them in quite a new connection. For indeed I declare that my intention was to discard the commencement I first had in my thoughts, and to give the preference to another of an entirely different nature, dating my explanation from an anterior period of my life. I will make a third trial, without erasing this second failure, protesting that it is not my design to conceal any of my infirmities, whether they be of head or heart. 3 GEORGE SILVERMANS EXPLANATION THIRD CHAPTER NOT as yet directly aiming at how it came to pass, I will come upon it by degrees. The natural manner, after all, for God knows that is how it came upon me. My parents were in a miserable condition of life, and my infant home was a cellar in Preston. I recol