After all, it is the people who must immortalize us, and we must feed them with what they are in the habit of eating." "What induced you to come here, sir ?" asked the professor, abruptly.
"I never should have come of myself," answered the young man, with entire frankness.

"I never heard your name mentioned until less than a year ago.

It was the first time my father was expecting to die.

He told me you were a wise man, and learned besides; he had known you when you were young; you would have some interest in teaching me; he would feel more at ease to die, if he knew you were directing me.

I thought it over, as I said, and decided to come.