Seeing his mother ruined, without resources at forty-four years of age, persuaded himself of his glorious future, he had one of those magnificent impulses such as one has in youth and which prove much less the generosity than the pride of life.

Of the fifteen thousand francs of income remaining to him, he gave up to his mother twelve thousand five hundred.

It is expedient to add that in less than a year afterward he married the sister of his college friend and four hundred thousand dollars.

He had seen poverty and he was afraid of it.
His action with regard to his mother seemed to justify in his own eyes the purely interested character of the combination which freed his brush forever.

There are, moreover, such artistic consciences.