My father wants me to go into law; I want to go to the sea; what should I do?

Posted January 12th, 2009

ny asked: My father, Kreutznaer, being a foreigner of Bremen,
settled in England, where he married my mother and earned good living as a merchant. I had 2 elder brothers, one of whom was lieutenant-colonel to an English regiment of foot and was killed in the war. When I became 18, my father told me that [...]