Oh! he'll succeed in the end.

I shouldn't be surprised to see that fellow in some very brilliant position; he has tenacity, honesty, and courage.

He studies, he delves." Notwithstanding the favor with which he was greeted, la Peyrade went discreetly to the Thuilliers'.

When reproached for this reserve he went oftener, and ended by appearing every Sunday; he was invited to all dinner-parties, and became at last so familiar in the house that whenever he came to see Thuillier about four o'clock he was always requested to take "pot-luck" without ceremony.

Mademoiselle Thuillier used to say:-- "Then we know that he will get a good dinner, poor fellow!" A social phenomenon which has certainly been observed, but never, as yet, formulated, or, if you like it better, published, though it fully deserves to be recorded, is the return of habits, mind, and manners to primitive conditions in certain persons who, between youth and old age, have raised themselves above their first estate.