As long as it lasted I made use of it to minute down the days of the month on which any remarkable thing happened to me; and first, by casting up times past, I remembered that there was a strange concurrence of days in the various providences which befell me, and which, if I had been superstitiously inclined to observe days as fatal or fortunate, I might have had reason to have looked upon with a great deal of curiosity.
Amikor nagyobb figyelemmel olvastam át jegyzeteimet, csodálatos egybeesések tűntek fel előttem, azon napok között, amelyeken valami fontos esemény ért. Ha babonás lettem volna, ezek után csak megerősödik a hitem a szerencsés és szerencsétlen napokban.