You ought to carve the last word in letters of fire on your memory." "Oh, I have," said Oscar.
"Very good,--then thank your uncle; didn't you hear him say he would take charge of your future?
You will be a lawyer in Paris." "He doesn't see the grandeur of his destiny," said the little old man, observing Oscar's apathetic air.

"Well, he's just out of school.

Listen, I'm no talker," he continued; "but I have this to say: Remember that at your age honesty and uprightness are maintained only by resisting temptations; of which, in a great city like Paris, there are many at every step.

Live in your mother's home, in the garret; go straight to the law-school; from there to your lawyer's office; drudge night and day, and study at home.

Become, by the time you are twenty-two, a second clerk; by the time you are twenty-four, head-clerk; be steady, and you will win all.