"alas! am i born to this only in the world? the sayings of my father never failed. i have seen them prove true to the last word while he was living; and how has he fixed my horoscope! 'from my birth poverty!' nor is that my only fate. 'for ten years, imprisonment' a fate harder than poverty; and what comes next? 'death on the sea-shore'; which means that i must die away from home, far from friends and relatives on a sea-coast. now comes the most curious part of the horoscope, that i am to 'have some happiness afterwards!' what this happiness is, is an enigma to me."