But have you no fear, young gentleman, that the attractions of so gay a city may divert your mind from graver subjects?
Do you think that, when every pleasure may be had for the seeking, you will be content to devote yourself to the dry details of an uninteresting profession ?" "It is not an uninteresting profession," I replied.

"I might perhaps have preferred the church or the law; but having embarked in the study of medicine, I shall do my best to succeed in it." The stranger smiled.
"I am glad," he said, "to see you so ambitious.

I do not doubt that you will become a shining light in the brotherhood of Esculapius." "I hope so," I replied, boldly.

"I have studied closer than most men of my age, already." He smiled again, coughed doubtfully, and insisted on filling my glass from his own bottle.
"I only fear," he said, "that you will be too diffident of your own merits.

Now, when you call upon this Doctor....what did you say was his name ?" "Cheron," I replied, huskily.
"True, Cheron.