It had an enormous fire place where great logs were burned, and the walls were hung with the most rare and wonderful Indian curios.

There he did all the painting which has made him famous in the last twenty years, and all the modelling which has already become so well known and would have eventually made him a name as a great sculptor.

He always worked steadily until three o'clock and then there was a walk or game of tennis or a ride.

After dinner, delightful evenings in the studio.
Frederic was a student and a deep thinker.

He liked to solve all questions for himself and did not accept readily other men's theories.
He thought much on religious subjects and the future life, and liked to compare the Christian religion with the religions of Eastern countries, weighing them one against the other with fairness and clear logic.
And so we sat, many evenings into the night, Frederic and Jack stretched in their big leather chairs puffing away at their pipes, Eva with her needlework, and myself a rapt listener: wondering at this man of genius, who could work with his creative brush all day long and talk with the eloquence of a learned Doctor of Divinity half the night.
During the time we were stationed at Davids Island, Mr.Remington and Jack made a trip to the Southwest, where they shot the peccary (wild hog) in Texas and afterwards blue quail and other game in Mexico.
Artist and soldier, they got on famously together notwithstanding the difference in their ages.
And now he was going to try his hand at a novel, a real romance.