I was then fourteen and a half years of age, and that gave me, therefore, three years and a half in which to prepare myself for the naval1 academy, consequently I had time to do it thoroughly2 and properly.
But in the meantime I had to encounter many refusals and all sorts of difficulties before my admittance to the Borda. And later I lived through many troublous years; years replete3 with struggles and mistakes,—I had many a Calvary to climb; I had to pay cruelly and in full for having been reared a sensitive, shy little creature, by force of will I had to recast and harden my physical as well as my moral being. One day, when I was about twenty-seven years of age, a circus director, after having seen my muscles that then had the elasticity4 and strength of steel, gave utterance5, in his admiration6, to the truest words I have ever had addressed to me: “What a pity, sir,” he said, “that your education commenced so late!”

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naval
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admiration
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n.钦佩,赞美,羡慕 | |
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