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Thus relieved of a grievous load, I from that hour set to work

afresh, resolved to pioneer h every difficulty: I

toiled hard, and my success was proportionate to my efforts; my

memory, not naturally tenacious, improved with practice; exercise

sharpened her class;

in less than twoI learned the first two tenses of the verb ETRE, and

sketched e (whose walls, by-the-bye, outrivalled in

slope those of the leaning tower of Pisa), on the saot to prepare in iination the

Barmecide supper of hot roast potatoes, or white bread and new s: I feasted

instead on the spectacle of ideal drawings, which I saw in the dark;

all the work of my own hands: freely pencilled houses and trees,