He grew up a la grace de Dieu, and was horribly spoiled.

Three or four years ago he graduated at a small college in this neighborhood, where I am afraid he had given a good deal more attention to novels and billiards than to mathematics and Greek.

Since then he has been reading law, at the rate of a page a day.
If he is ever admitted to practice I 'm afraid my friendship won't avail to make me give him my business.

Good, bad, or indifferent, the boy is essentially an artist--an artist to his fingers' ends." "Why, then," asked Rowland, "does n't he deliberately take up the chisel ?" "For several reasons.

In the first place, I don't think he more than half suspects his talent.