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Persona! History and Experience
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David Copperfield the Younger,
CHAPTER L I a7n Bom.
Whethbr I shail turn out to be the hero of my own life, Of whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning oí my life, Í record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. !t was remarked Üiat the clock began to strike, and Í 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, tliat I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits ; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as mey believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, bom 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 bjr the result. On the second branch of the question, I will only remark, that unless I ran through that part of my inheritance while 1 was still a baby, I have not come into it yet But I do not at all complain of having been kept out of this property; and if anybody else should be in the present enjoyment of it, he is heartily welcome to keep it.
1 was bom witJi a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether
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