A STUDIOUS BOYHOOD 7 



kindliness, love of the arts, and a taste for 

 poetry. 



It was undoubtedly in obedience to these 

 tendencies, inherited from his mother, and 

 which belonged rather to the emotional than 

 to the intellectual side of his nature, that 

 among all the subjects taught in the Arbois 

 college he showed no preference for anything 

 but drawing up to the age of thirteen years. 



Within the family circle he was regarded as 

 an artist, and he enjoyed quite a little local 

 fame. He used to draw crayon portraits, and 

 that of his mother, done with a free hand in 

 pastel, revealed a character dependent upon \ 

 sincerity and truth. But the alluring, yet 

 sometimes hazardous, fame of artists was not 

 what Joseph Pasteur desired for his son; ac- 

 cording to his grave conception of life, his 

 highest ambition was to see him in the assured 

 position of a professor. For the simple man had 

 a great respect for the ability to teach, and 

 there was no one whom he placed higher than 



