No career, no name, no position, no fortune, no past, no future, no anything.

Oh yes, he paints, if you please--paints in water-colours; like me, only better than I.His painting's pretty bad; on the whole I'm rather glad of that.

Fortunately he's very indolent, so indolent that it amounts to a sort of position.

He can say, 'Oh, I do nothing; I'm too deadly lazy.

You can do nothing to-day unless you get up at five o'clock in the morning.' In that way he becomes a sort of exception; you feel he might do something if he'd only rise early.