I came to my full growth with Pater.

He was a sort of silent, sympathetic elder brother.

Fortunately for me he could not talk at all; but he was an admirable listener, and I talked to him by the hour.

I learned the instrument of speech with him, for I could see by his face when I had said anything extraordinary.

He did not praise me but quickened me astonishingly, forced me always to do better than my best--an intense vivifying influence, the influence of Greek art at its supremest." "He was the Gamaliel then ?" I questioned, "at whose feet you sat ?" "Oh, no, Frank," he chided, "everyone sat at my feet even then.