He called my attention to it.

He didn't advise me to cultivate it; he said that as we grew up it always came of itself.

I supposed it had come to me, because I think I have always had the feeling.

My place in life was made for me, and it seemed easy to occupy it.

But you who, as I understand it, have made your own place, you who, as you told us the other day, have manufactured wash-tubs--you strike me, somehow, as a man who stands at his ease, who looks at things from a height.