If I can escape the dreadfullest part of my father's malediction, (for the temporary part is already, in a manner, fulfilled, which makes me tremble in apprehension of the other,) I shall think the wreck of my worldly fortunes a happy composition.

good And fortunes evil, ... ...

By the time of his meeting with Beaumaroy the delusion was complete; through all the second half of 1918 he followedso far as his mind could now follow anything rationallyin his own person and fortunes the fate of the man whom he believed himself to be, appropriating the hopes, the fears, the imagined ambitions, the physical infirmity, of that self-created other self.