基本信息
certain inevitable cases, the pre-engaged servant of the long purse; and the story is left to be told, for the first time, in this place. as the judge might once have heard it, so the reader shall hear it now. no circumstance of importance, from the beginning to the end of the disclosure, shall be related on hearsay evidence. when the writer of these introductory lines (walter hartright by name) happens to be more closely connected than others with the incidents to be recorded, he will be the narrator. when not, he will retire from the position of narrator; and his task will be continued, from the point at which he has left it off, by other persons who can speak to the circumstances under notice from their own knowledge, just as clearly and positively as he has spoken before them.
thus, the story here presented will be told by more than one pen, as the story of an offence against the laws is told in court by more than one witness -- with the same object in both cases, to present the truth always in its most direct and most intelligible aspect; and to trace the course of one complete series of events, by making the persons who have been most closely connected with them, at each successive stage, relate their own experience, word for word.
let walter hartright, te
