good wife who lived me and whom I loved, good children, and a large

estate which without much effort on my part improved and increased.

I was respected by my relations and acquaintances more than at any

previous time. I was praised by others and without much self-

deception could consider that my name was famous. And far from

being insane or mentally diseased, I enjoyed on the contrary a

strength of mind and body such as I have seldom met with among men

of my kind; physically I could keep up with the peasants at mowing,