I at once told my father that I did not mean to be a merchant, but an agriculturist.

At this the firm of Fink and Becker went distracted; but I stood to my point.

At last we came to a compromise.

I went for two years to a business-house in North Germany; then I came here to learn office-work, through which discipline they hope to tame me.

So here I am now in a cloister.