I've got a good clerkship in the city.

What are you doing ?" "I'm an artist's model," said Paul.
The other, a pale and perky youth, sniffed.

His name was Higgins.

"Good Lord! What do you mean ?" "I'm a model in the life class of the Royal Academy School," said Paul, proudly.
"You stand up naked in front of all kinds of people for them to paint you ?" "Of course," said Paul.
"How beastly!" said Higgins.
"What do you mean ?" "Just that," said Higgins.

"It's beastly!" A minute or two afterward he jumped on a passing omnibus, and thenceforward avoided Paul at the Polytechnic Institute.
This uncompromising pronouncement on the part of Higgins was a shock; but together with other incidents, chiefly psychological, vague, intangible phenomena of his spiritual development, it showed Paul the possibility of another point of view.