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If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have noheavy crimes to confess: and, if I do not rise in the estimation of the reader for actsof gallantry and devotion in my country's cause, at least I may claim the merit ofzealous and persevering continuance in my vocation. We are all of us variouslygifted from Above, and he who is content to walk, instead of to run, on his allottedpath through life, although he may not so rapidly attain the goal, has the advantageof not being out of breath upon his arrival.As well as I can recollect and analyse my early propensities, I think that, had I beenpermitted to select my own profession, I should in all probability have bound myselfapprentice to a tailor; for I always envied the comfortable seat which they appearedto enjoy upon the shopboard, and their elevated position, which enabled them tolook down upon the constant succession of the idle or the busy, who passed inreview before them in the main street of the country town, near to which I passedthe first fourteen years of my existence.

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