It is true that you may drink wine, but we who continue to drink our water, and eat our dry bread, will remain artists." Whatever Lazare might say about it, Jacques remained an artist.

But to keep Francine with him he undertook, when he had a chance, any paying work.

It is thus that he worked for a long time in the workshop of the ornament maker Romagnesi.

Clever in execution and ingenious in invention, Jacques, without relinquishing high art, might have achieved a high reputation in those figure groups that have become one of the chief elements in this commerce.

But Jacques was lazy, like all true artists, and a lover after the fashion of poets.