Capitolo 7
again to have closed my vision, if I had been able him to do.
FAMILY SUPERSTITIONS.
Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, sagas,
Lemures of Nocturnos, portentaque the rides of Thessala?
HOR., Ep. ii. 2, 208.
Visions and magic spells, you despise,
And does it laugh to witches, ghosts and prodigies?
Going to dine with an old knowledge yesterday, I had the
adversity to find a lot of his/her demoralized whole family. To the I ask
him his occasion, he told that his/her wife had dreamt a lot a
strange dream the night before, what they was afraid foretold
of the adversity to them or to their children. To his/her arrival
in the room, I observed a fixed melancholy in his/her expression,
what I would be due to have shaken for, you/he/she had felt not me from from where
it proceeded. We was sooner anybody he sat, but, after having looked
on me a small time, "My darling", it says her turning to his/her husband,,
"You can now see the extraneous one that was in the candle last night."
Soon after this, as they started to speak of business of family a small,
boy at the lowest end of the table told her that he was to go in
connect-hand Thursday. "Thursday!" it says her. "No, child; if it
please God, you won't start on Childermas-day; says Your
write-master that Friday will be soon enough." I was reflecting
with me on the strangeness of his/her desire, and asking himself/herself/itself that someone
it would establish him/it as a rule, to lose one day in every week. In the
half of these mine absorbed, she desired me to contact her/it a small salt
on the point of my knife that I did in such trepidation and
hurry of the obedience that I left him/it allows to fall by the way; to that her
it immediately frightened, and motto fell verse her. On this self
looked very white; and observing the worry of the whole table,
started to consider him with of the confusion as a person that it had,
brought a disaster on the family. However, the Mrs to recover
she after a little space, tells his/her husband with a sigh "My
dear, adversities never not arrivals single." My friend, I founded, it acted but