George Silverman's Explanation – Charles Dickens – Platanus Publishing

“It happened in this wise—But, looking at those words, and comparing them with my fiformer 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 ficommencement I first had in my thoughts, and to give the preference ffto 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 ficonceal any of my infirmities, whether they be of head or heart.”