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D, and an appreciating patron on the other, which affected the whole of
his future life. He returned to C----, bade adieu to his landlady and
friends, and, placing himself and his luggage upon the London coach,
proceeded to the metropolis. Here, after looking about him for some
time, and taking pains to study the various masters in his art, he made
a respectful application to one who stood among the highest in repute,
and whose works had pleased his own taste and fancy better than any he
had seen. After much earnest pleading, and offering very nearly all the
little wealth he possessed, he was accepted as a pupil, to receive a
course of ten lessons. With great assiduity he followed the instructions
of the master, and learned the mysteries of colouring, and a great
number of artistic niceties, all tending to advance him towards
perfection of execution. He was really possessed of natural talents of a
high order, and in the development of these he now evinced great
acuteness, as well as industry. His master, an artist who had made a
reputation years before, and who had won high patronage, and earned for
himself a large fortune, thus being beyond the reach of any feelings of
professional jealousy, was much delighted with Conrad's progress, was
proud to have discovered and taught an artist of really superior talent;
and generously returning to him the money he had lately received with so
much mistrust and even nausea--for a raw pupil is the horror of
_cognoscenti_--he forthwith established him as his protege. Thanks to
his introduction, Conrad shortly received a commission of importance,
and had the honour of painting the por