That his convictions on this head survived one of the best Simla tailors shows that they must always have been strong.

I think he believed that he was doing all that he did do to make himself socially possible with the purpose of pleasing Dora Harris.

I would not now venture to say how far Dora inspired and controlled him in this direction, and how far the impulse was his own.

The measure of appreciation that began to seek his pictures, poor and small though it was, gave him, on the other hand, the most unalloyed delight.

He talked of the advice of Sir William Lamb as if it were anything but that of a pompous old ass, and he made a feast with champagne for Blum that must have cost him quite as much as Blum paid for the Breton sketch.