A professor of alchemy : (Denis Zachaire) / by Percy Ross.

  • Ross, Percy
Date:
1887
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Credit: A professor of alchemy : (Denis Zachaire) / by Percy Ross. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ]3ut Denis only knew his feeling by the French for emptiness. There had come a blank in the student-life. Long years had he toiled like any blacksmith, but ever with hope, ambition, and faith to bear him up. Now came the inevitable moment when the past seemed waste ; when failure was the only strong fact that he realized; failure, and those few grey hairs in their lurking-places on the really youthful head. From earliest bo}- hood had Denis plied the fantastic trade of alchemist, and all in vain, as bitterly he thought. “ Not that failure up till now means any harm,” he, sighing, pondered; “ but I feel failure aliead of me. Faith in myself is gone. Faith in