The Importance of Keeping One's Intellectual Liberty

Archer's father had been a diplomat, and it was intended that his son should follow in the same career. But an insatiable taste for letters had thrown him into journalism and then into authorship,. And at length, after other experiments and lissitudes, which he spared, his listener, into tutoring english youths in switzerland. Archer looked with a sort of vicarious envy at this eager, impecunious young man who had fared so richly in his poverty. His situation, in fact, seemed, materially speaking, no more brilliant than ned winsett's.