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chapel. For a young man his face was rugged, and--until the shadows fell upon it--hard. Enshadowed, it sprang into tenderness. She saw him once again at Rome, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, carrying a burden of acorns. Healthy and muscular, he yet gave her the feeling of greyness, of tragedy that might only find solution in the night. The feeling soon passed; it was unlike her to have entertained anything so subtle. Born of silence and of unknown emotion, it passed when Mr. Emerson returned, and she could re-enter the world of rapid talk, which was alone familiar to her. "Were you snubbed?" asked his son tranquilly. "But we have spoilt the pleasure of I don't know how many people. They won't come back." "...full of innate sympathy...quickness to perceive good in others...vision of the
otherhood of man..." Scraps of the lecture on St. Francis came floating round the partition wall. "Don't let us spoil yours," he continued to Lucy. "Have you looked at those saints?" "Yes," said Lucy. "They are lovely. Do you know which is the tombstone that is praised in Ruskin?" He did not know, and suggested that they should try to guess it. George, rather to her relief, refused to move, and she and the old man wandered not unpleasantly about Santa Croce, which, though it is like a barn, has harvested many beautiful things inside its walls. There were also beggars to avoid. and guides to dodge round the pillars, and an old lady with her dog, and here and there a priest modestly edging to his Mass through the groups of tourists. But Mr. Emerson was only half interested. He watched the lecturer, whose success he believed he had impaired,
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chapel. For a young man his face was rugged,<br />
and--until the shadows fell upon it--hard.<br />
Enshadowed, it sprang into tenderness. She<br />
saw him once again at Rome, on the ceiling of<br />
the Sistine Chapel, carrying a burden of<br />
acorns. Healthy and muscular, he yet gave her<br />
the feeling of greyness, of tragedy that might<br />
only find solution in the night. The feeling soon<br />
passed; it was unlike her to have entertained<br />
anything so subtle. Born of silence and of<br />
unknown emotion, it passed when Mr.<br />
Emerson returned, and she could re-enter the<br />
world of rapid talk, which was alone familiar to<br />
her.<br />
"Were you snubbed?" asked his son<br />
tranquilly.<br />
"But we have spoilt the pleasure of I don't<br />
know how many people. They won't come<br />
back."<br />
"...full of innate sympathy...quickness to<br />
perceive good in others...vision of the