...any rate, the commonest and easiest explanation of such emotions, but if ever there was a case where tile solicitude seemed to amount to a prediction, it was in regard to the voyage of the Ossolis. Italian s are apt to dread the sea, and Ossoli had been cautioned to beware of it by one who had told his fortune when a boy. His wife, on the other hand, had cherished a superstition that the year 1850, prob...