I Walked in Arden (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from I Walked in Arden I Hardly know where to begin, because, as I grow older, I find it more and more difficult to know what really is beginning of anything. Causes are all mixed up. and things that seem afterwards to have a bearing were not at the time important enough to be noted. And it is probably ten to one that some factors have been completely forgotten. I, suppose nobody can tell all of what happened or tell any of it with absolute accuracy. At least, as I look on at life, any attempt to record it on paper seems hopeless. Things happy i, you don't know why - and you try to use your judgment while they are happening, but even if you are very clever, you don't know whether your judgment was the best judgment. All you can observe is how things end - when they do end. And yet I know that character - whatever that is - probably is more important than circumstances. Hieresan old vulgar song, something about, "It isn't what you do, its how you take things." These aren't the words, but that is the idea. Its the same thing that my father used to say to me: Play fair, Ted - and then if you lose, why, you must grin and bear it. I know this isn't a novel philosophy, it is a useful one. Original ideas are not necessarily helpful. An honest platitude has better sticking powers. I must try to tell a little about the beginning. My name is Edward Jevons and I was born in New York City, but I have never had the pleasure of living in what, for lack of a better term, I shall call my native town. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.