FIRST CHAPTER

by Charles Dickens

　　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. Theymay serve, however, if I let them remain, to suggest how verydifficult I find it to begin to explain my explanation. An uncouthphrase: and yet I do not see my way to a better.