Annals of an Eventful Life (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Annals of an Eventful Life I was born in the year 181 -. I am not going to tell you the exact year; andam not likely to bore any of my readers with recollections of the Peace of Amiens or the Campaigns of the Duke of Wellington. Yes, I was born, but before I was born my existence was blighted. Not that I came into the world a rickety thing, for I was a most healthy child; morally blighted, I mean. Every one had made up their minds that I was to be one thing, and I came out another. In a word, it had been settled that I was to be a girl, and I was born a boy.´ "Amphora coepit Institui; curreute rotâ cur urceus exit?" We were a boy family, and we had been a boy family time out of mind. Every now and then, after a run of fifteen boys or so, Nature, or whatever it is that settles these things, threw us a girl by way of a sop; but I am bound to say, they had far better have been boys; they were merely boys in girls´ clothing, but inwardly they were thorough males. One such sop had been my father´s sister. At first the terror, and afterwards the delight, of my existence, I fancy I see her now, and hear her say, "Oh, child, that you had been a girl!" Well! this strong-minded woman had settled it with my parents that I was to be a girl, that I was to be called after her, to be adopted by her, and though last, not least, to have her money and her land. I have heard it whispered that my father had doubts on the matter, and that he was seen to wring his hands when baby´s sex was talked of as a foregone conclusion. 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.
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