Lincoln centennial number . twas hell generally, all the time, rightaround the fellers, yelling, fighting, sing-ing, throwing things; and yet the threeor four really serious men kept right on,regardless. That was the case with me. To return to the reminiscences: While I was at Jouffroys I formedthree of my greatest friendships. One forAlfred Gamier, another for Paul Bion, along, thin, intellectual young fellow whohad been brought up piously, and whohad been most shamefully hazed on enter-ing the school. He possessed a nobility ofcharacter unusual in such I was a shade less
Lincoln centennial number . twas hell generally, all the time, rightaround the fellers, yelling, fighting, sing-ing, throwing things; and yet the threeor four really serious men kept right on,regardless. That was the case with me. To return to the reminiscences: While I was at Jouffroys I formedthree of my greatest friendships. One forAlfred Gamier, another for Paul Bion, along, thin, intellectual young fellow whohad been brought up piously, and whohad been most shamefully hazed on enter-ing the school. He possessed a nobility ofcharacter unusual in such I was a shade less brutal than theothers, and for that reason we becamefriends. Our care for each other con-tinued without break or quarrel to the dayof his death, thirty years afterward. Thethird companion I made was a Portuguese,Soares dos Reis. He, too, was long, dark,and thin, of an effeminate nature, inclinedto melancholy, the kindest man in theworld. He committed suicide in Portu-gal some fifteen years later, through mari- LXXVIl— 61. Copyright, 1908, by Augusta H. Samt-Gaudens STUDIES OF GREEK COSTUMEFrom Augustus Saint-Gaudenss student sketch-book. tal troubles. He had an exquisite talent,and I shall speak more of him later on. Although this was certainly a very im-portant part of my existence, when I cometo it I do not seem to be able to recall in-cidents as I did of an earlier period, nordo I remember appreciating seriously anyof the things that ought to be life in the atelier was the regular lifeof a student, with most of its enthusiasms 582 and disheartenings. But my ambition wasof such a soaring nature, and I was so tre-mendously austere, that I had the deepestscorn for the ordinary amusements of thelight operas, balls, and what not; and Ifelt a Spartan-like superiority in my dis-dain for the famous Schneider in Offen-bachs productions which had a tremen-dous success at that time. I have sinceentirely changed my point of view, and THE STUDENT SAINT-GAUDENS 583 regre
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