In the evening he would tell him everything he had done that day; the things he had said, how many lectures he had cut, what brilliant recitations he had made, and even what food he had eaten at Memorial.

He was pushing, self-confident, very shrewd and clever, devoured with an inordinate ambition and particularly pleased when he could get the better of anybody, even of Vandover or of young Haight.

He delighted to assume the management of things.

Vandover, he made his protege, taking over the charge of such business as the two had in common.

It was he who had found the room in Matthew's, getting it away from all other applicants, securing it at the eleventh hour.