The fact of your portrait being exhibited, with your style and title printed below, marked you as one of the great ones of the earth.

Often he had said to Jane: "When I am there you'll be proud, won't you ?" And she had looked up to him adoringly and wondered why he was not there already.
It was Paul's habit to scrutinize the faces of those who had achieved greatness, Archbishops, Field-Marshals, Cabinet Ministers, and to speculate on the quality of mind that had raised them to their high estate; and often he would shift his position, so as to obtain a glimpse of his own features in the plate-glass window, and compare them with those of the famous.

Thus he would determine that he had the brow of the divine, the nose of the statesman and the firm lips of the soldier.

It was a stimulating pastime.

He was born to great things; but to what great things he knew not.