He was seven years older than I.Not that I need mention it, for it hardly seems to belong to anything.
I think--I mean, he told us--that he had been in practice three or four years and that if he could have hoped to contend through three or four more, he would not have made the voyage on which he was bound.

But he had no fortune or private means, and so he was going away.

He had been to see us several times altogether.

We thought it a pity he should go away.

Because he was distinguished in his art among those who knew it best, and some of the greatest men belonging to it had a high opinion of him.
When he came to bid us good-bye, he brought his mother with him for the first time.