A quire of foolscap paper is placed before me, and I am asked to relate the principal events of an apparently eventful life. It now strikes me for the first time how little influence even the most marked of these events had on my character. Such, for instance, as the misery of sudden poverty, the loss or gain of riches, produced but little effect or impression on my life. It was the friend and enemy, the influence of congenial companionship, or the reverse, which caused the development of my self--that selfish self which has now grown old in years, but not in feelings, for my enjoyments in this beautiful world are often keener than when I was a thoughtless and apparently gay and admired gir…
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