In the end he returned to the science which had been his first love, and which rewarded his devotion with a wide reputation.Wine gushes from the trampled grape,
Iron's branded into steel.
These years glided by with fairy-like swiftness. They were passed by my sisters and myself under my brother's roof, where the beloved uncle also made his home with us so long as we remained together.
I have dwelt a good deal on the circumstances and surroundings of my early life in my native city. If this state of things here described had continued, I should probably have remained a frequenter of fashionable society, a musical amateur, and a dilettante in literature.