He knew himself to be in the scheme of a master-workman, and by-and-by he would blunt the chisel and bend the saw; but not yet.
He was more of a man when he was at least a master-workman and not merely a master.
And then, for the first time, having acquired an insight into the art, was he able to appreciate the skill of the master-workman.
The two men are guided in their disposition of the strokes chiefly by the hammer of the master-workman.
He now hoped that his new apprentice, with the hand of a master-workman, would go clip, clip through madame's inquisitiveness.
