There were collected and piled up all Albert’s successive caprices, hunting-horns, bass-viols, flutes⁠—a whole orchestra, for Albert had had not a taste but a fancy for music; easels, palettes, brushes, pencils⁠—for music had been succeeded by painting; foils, boxing-gloves, broadswords, and singlesticks⁠—for, following the example of the fashionable young men of the time, Albert de Morcerf cultivated, with far more perseverance than music and drawing, the three arts that complete a dandy’s education, i.e. , fencing, boxing, and singlestick; and it was here that he received Grisier, Cooks, and Charles Leboucher.