He would not ask Lady Earle, although he knew that she would have parted with the last jewel in her case for him.
Ronald gave himself up to the study of painting.

A pretty little studio was built, and Dora spent long hours in admiring both her husband and his work.

He gave promise of being some day a good artist--not a genius.

The world would never rave about his pictures; but, in time, he would be a conscientious, painstaking artist.

Among his small coterie of friends some approved, others laughed.
"Why not go to the Jews ?" asked fashionable young men.