They'll call him a second Detaille and a third-hand Meissonier while his fashion lasts.

It's windy diet for a colt.' 'I don't think it affects Dick much.

You might as well call a young wolf a lion and expect him to take the compliment in exchange for a shin-bone.
Dick's soul is in the bank.

He's working for cash.' 'Now he has thrown up war work, I suppose he doesn't see that the obligations of the service are just the same, only the proprietors are changed.' 'How should he know?
He thinks he is his own master.' 'Does he?
I could undeceive him for his good, if there's any virtue in print.

He wants the whiplash.' 'Lay it on with science, then.