One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.
I can always forgive where I understand.
It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard
I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.
Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?
I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.