The Life Of Nelson, Volume II.

"I can tell you no more; the book is closed."^[120] The Battle of the Nile, preceding closely the completion of his fortieth year, not unnaturally recalled the prediction to mind, where the singularity of the coincidence left it impressed; and now, standing as he did on the brink of great events, with half-acknowledged foreboding weighing on his heart, he well may have yearned to know what lay beyond that silence, within the closed covers of the book of fate.

[120] The author has to thank the present Earl Nelson for this anecdote.