You are now of age!" Then he promptly reduced to extremes his oversight of his home, forbidding Dona Luisa to handle any money.

Henceforth he regarded his son as an adversary, treating him during his lightning apparitions at the avenue Victor Hugo with glacial courtesy as though he were a stranger.
For a while a transitory opulence enlivened the studio.

Julio had increased his expenses, considering himself rich.

But the letters from his uncle in America soon dissipated these illusions.

At first the remittances exceeded very slightly the monthly allowance that his father had made him.