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CHAPTER II.
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THE opportunity I wanted presented itself in a curious way, and led, unexpectedly enough, to some rather important consequences.
I have already stated, among the other branches of human attainment1 which I acquired at the public school, that I learned to draw caricatures of the masters who were so obliging as to educate me. I had a natural faculty2 for this useful department of art. I improved it greatly by practice in secret after I left school, and I ended by making it a source of profit and pocket money to me when I entered the medical profession. What was I to do? I could not expect for years to make a halfpenny, as a physician. My genteel walk in life led me away from all immediate3 sources of emolument4, and my father could only afford to give me an allowance which was too preposterously5 small to be mentioned. I had helped myself surreptitiously to pocket-money at school, by selling my caricatures, and I was obliged to repeat the process at home!
At the time of which I write, the Art of Caricature was just approaching the close of its colored and most extravagant6 stage of development. The subtlety7 and truth to Nature required for the pursuit of it now, had hardly begun to be thought of then. Sheer farce8 and coarse burlesque9, with plenty of color for the money, still made up the sum of what the public of those days wanted. I was first assured of my capacity for the production of these requisites10, by a medical friend of the ripe critical age of nineteen. He knew a print-publisher, and enthusiastically showed him a
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attainment
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portfolio
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wares
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proceeding
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dint
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entirely
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ardor
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vocation
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afterward
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infringement
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incarceration
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captivity
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perseverance
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portrayed
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v.画像( portray的过去式和过去分词 );描述;描绘;描画 | |
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solitary
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briefly
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鞭打( scourge的过去式和过去分词 ); 惩罚,压迫 | |
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defiance
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countenance
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impudence
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blandly
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retaliate
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instructor
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creditors
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