In future he would be seeing much more society; he must have a decent regard for appearances.
His spirits faltered not; they were in harmony with the June weather.
Never had he laboured to such purpose.

Everything seemed easy; he strode with giant strides into the field of knowledge.

Papers such as would be set him at the examination were matter for his mirth, mere schoolboy tests.

Now and then he rose from study with a troublesome dizziness, and of a morning his head generally ached a little; but these were trifles.

_Prisch zu_!--as a German friend of his at Geneva used to say.
Even on the morning of the great day he worked; it was to prove his will-power, his worthiness.