17In the meantime my father had mobilized his best friendships to make me have a better place, in a serious administration, in which I could also have a decent career. He was a very accomplished man; he rejoiced with me for the employment I had procured but, at the same time, as a sailor, he told me the epilogue it could have: at the expiration the owner, pleading a thousand of pretexts, would have discharged me. So I told him I would not have given anything back, as this practice would have been very useful for me in the immediate future.
It was my belief, one day or another, Destiny, so far always against my father, would have given him, albeit indirectly, a tangible sign of benevolence. And I was not wrong: the place, the one so desired by my parent, came out immediately. One day a pos
