文档介绍：E SILVERMAN'S EXPLANATION
E
SILVERMAN'S
EXPLANATION
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E SILVERMAN'S 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.
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E SILVERMAN'S EXPLANATION
SECOND CHAPTER
IT happened in THIS wise -
But, looking at those words, paring 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 mencement 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.
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E SILVERMAN'S EXPLANATION
THIRD CHAPTER
NOT as yet directly aiming at how it came to pass, I e 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 recollect the sound of father's Lancashire clogs
on the street pavement above, as being different in my young hearing from
the sound of all other clogs; and I recollect, that, when mother came down
the cellar-steps, I used tremblingly to speculate on her feet having a good
or an ill- tempered look, - on her knees, - on her waist, - until finally her
face came into view, and settled the question. From this it will be seen
that I was timid, and that the cellar-steps were steep, and that the doorway
was v