We are all under a tacit compact to preserve it.

Perhaps you believe in the necessary turbulence of genius, and you intend to enjoin upon your protege the importance of cultivating his passions." "On the contrary, I believe that a man of genius owes as much deference to his passions as any other man, but not a particle more, and I confess I have a strong conviction that the artist is better for leading a quiet life.

That is what I shall preach to my protege, as you call him, by example as well as by precept.

You evidently believe," he added in a moment, "that he will lead me a dance." "Nay, I prophesy nothing.

I only think that circumstances, with our young man, have a great influence; as is proved by the fact that although he has been fuming and fretting here for the last five years, he has nevertheless managed to make the best of it, and found it easy, on the whole, to vegetate.