Woman's Understanding And Man's Goal

READING AGE 12+

Samuel ShofoworaAction

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and
what a Man's resolution can achieve.
If the machinery of the Law could be depended on to fathom
every case of suspicion, and to conduct every process of inquiry, with moderate assistance only from the lubricating influ￾ences of oil of gold, the events which fill these pages might
have claimed their share of the public attention in a Court of
Justice.
But the Law is still, in 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 describe them in his own person. When his ex￾perience fails, 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

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