Capitolo 10
brightly. His/her extraordinary diligence, anybody less that his striking
ability, distinguished him/it among the other students and him removed
first prizes with ease, studying soon and late that it is probable that he acquires
the knowledge that he has loved. After having left the university he was given
to the acquisition of the German language, and it studied Jewish and
taller mathematics.
All this that he did with the idea to become a minister of the Gospel,
but the more than he has thought about the load from which he would suppose this way
doing, the less he felt him able for his/her suggested assignment.
"Goes to the army, Fletcher" the pleaded some of his/her friends, and it was
not long before he turned the power of his/her clear brain to work on
military engineering. He became very acute on his/her chosen profession,
and to the duration when Portugal was sending troops to Brazil,
Fletcher hastened to Lisbon, it gathered together a society of youth
English, accepted the errand of a Captain, and it agreed to sail on a
certain day in the Portuguese Service.
His/her father, Colonel De You Fléchère, refused to sanction the footstep or
to provide him/it with the money he required for the enterprise.
"I will go without him", he resolved, and it counted the hours to the
sailing some man-o'-war.
One day or two in front of the named date a houseservant that was serving him/it
with breakfast, it allowed to clumsily fall the tea-boiler on his/her leg, while burning
him so severely that he had to take to his/her bed. While there the ship
experienced, and in sight of Fletcher later the life, it is an impressive fact
what she was not felt again never of.
Although disappointed hopelessly, Fletcher was as acute how come on
becoming a soldier. He returned to Nyon, and, to his boundless
please, it learned that his/her uncle had given him an errand in the
Dutch Service of which he was a Colonel.
Eagerly he made his/her Flanders way, while envying the days of trip that
the kept one out of his/her ambition. Bent nevertheless he was in to raw-cut his