"That's it! that's it!" he said, and, at once picking up the pencil, he began rapidly drawing.

The spot of tallow had given the man a new pose.

He had sketched this new pose, when all at once he recalled the face of a shopkeeper of whom he had bought cigars, a vigorous face with a prominent chin, and he sketched this very face, this chin on to the figure of the man.

He laughed aloud with delight.

The figure from a lifeless imagined thing had become living, and such that it could never be changed.