The snow-image, and other twice-told tales

The public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the author’s part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed;

公众普遍否定了作者过度自由的想法，因为他们似乎对我所说的那些引言比随后的故事更感兴趣；

I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know.

我一直特别小心，不透露任何关于我自己的事情，这些事情连最漠不关心的观察者都可能知道，而且我也完全愿意让我的死对头知道。