Altogether manlier was his aspect and
bearing than I had ever seen it.
"God speed your mission," said I, as I shook hands with him in
parting.
"If it depends on human agency, directed with earnestness, patience,
and will, my mission will have a prosperous result," he replied. "It
is to be my first entirely self-reliant experience, and I think the
discipline of mind it will involve must strengthen me for higher
professional work than any in which I have yet been engaged. You are
aware, Doctor, that my heart is in my profession."
"So I have seen from the beginning."
"I will not deny," he added, "that I have ambition. That I wish to
be distinguished at the bar."
"An honorable ambition," said I.
"Nor that, sometimes--in moments of weakness, perhaps--my dreams
have gone higher. But I am a very young man, and youth is ardent and
imaginative," he added.
"And you have this great advantage," I replied, "that, with every
year added to your life, you may, if you will, grow wiser and
stronger. You stand, as all young minds, at the bottom of a ladder.
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