The things we do!

But
change of air may cure some sick people more speedily than the sufferers
ever hoped; and also it is on record, that young men with the very best
intentions respecting study, do not fulfil them, and are led away from
their scheme by accident, or pleasure, or necessity, or some good cause.
Young Clive worked sedulously two or three months at his vocation at
Rome, secretly devouring, no doubt, the pangs of sentimental
disappointment under which he laboured; and he drew from his models, and
he sketched round about everything that suited his pencil on both sides
of Tiber; and he laboured at the Life Academy of nights--a model himself
to other young students. The symptoms of his sentimental malady began to
abate. He took an interest in the affairs of Jack, and Tom, and Harry
round about him: Art exercised its great healing influence on his wounded
spirit, which to be sure had never given in. The meeting of the painters
at the Cafe Greco, and at their private houses, was very jovial,
pleasant, and lively.


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