2/18 He changed the posture of his legs fifty times. For a while he wrestled right gallantly with the apparent menace of the Fates that he was to get no dinner at all that day; it seemed incredibly derisive, for, as I must repeat, it had never happened to him by any accident before. "You are born--you dine." Such appeared to him to be the positive regulation of affairs, and a most proper one,--of the matters of course following the birth of a young being. But we have nothing to do with the constitutionally luckless: the calamitous history of a simple empty stomach is enough. |