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This beginning-part is not made out of anybody’s head, you know. It’s real. You must believe this beginning-part more than what comes after, else you won’t understand how what comes after came to be written. You must believe it all, but you must believe this most, please. I am the Editor of it.
- Charles Dickens, The Trial of William Tinkling (1867) illustrated by Susan Beatrice Pearse [full text]