![]() ![]() It is scarcely necessary to go into the details of the speculations that landed me at Lympne, in Kent. Whether they have brought any wisdom to light below it is a more doubtful matter. I am young still in years, but the things that have happened to me have rubbed something of the youth from my mind. But in those days I was young, and my youth among other objectionable forms took that of a pride in my capacity for affairs. It may be there are directions in which I have some capacity, but the conduct of business operations is not among these. I can admit, even, that to a certain extent my disasters were conceivably of my own making. Sitting now surrounded by all the circumstances of wealth, there is a luxury in admitting my extremity. I may perhaps mention here that very recently I had come an ugly cropper in certain business enterprises. ![]() So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men. Here, at any rate, said I, I shall find peace and a chance to work!Īnd this book is the sequel. ![]() I had gone to Lympne because I had imagined it the most uneventful place in the world. ![]() I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself removed from the slightest possibility of disturbing experiences. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. ![]()
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