![]() ![]() On the secondbranch of the question, I will only remark, that unless I ran through that part of my inheritance while I was still a baby, I have not come into it yet. ![]() It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that I was destined to be unlucky in life and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a Friday night.I need say nothing here on the first head, because nothing can show better than my history whether that prediction was verified or falsified by the result. ![]() To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. David Copperfield I I Am Born W hether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
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