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176 ARIADNE.months after the day thatIhad led her throughthe Chiaramonti Gallery to Hermes — whenIhad gone to ask for her, as never a day passedbutIdid do, and Ersilia also, she opened thedoor of her lofty studio and came down a fewof the stone stairs tomy side." Come," she said to me; and then Iknewthat she had foundher strength and compassedsome greatlabour.The studio was a wide and lofty place, withwaUs and floor of stone, and narrow windowsthat opened in their centre on a hinge, andthe plants that grew upon the roof hung clownbefore their bars, and the pigeons flew in andoutin the daytime." Look," she said, and led me in and let mestand before the statue she had made, and whichshe had herself cut out from theblock, andshapedin every line,till it stood there,a white and wondrousthing, erect in the sunlight shining fromthe skies, and seemed to live,nay,to leap forthto life as the Apollo does inBelvidere.Itwas the same form that she had made iiithe clay at Venice and at Paris; that is, it was
ARIADNE. 177Hilarion: the man made god, by the deifyingpower of the passion which thus beheld him.Everycurve of the slender and symmetrical limbswasIds,every hne of the hannonious and Greeklikefeatures his also; but it was no longer amortal,itwas adivinity;and abouthis feet playedan ape and an asp,andin his hand he held adeadbird, and he looked at the bird in weariness anddoubt.That was aU.There was no other allegory. She knew thatmarble must speak in the simplest words, aspoets spake of old, or not at all.Marble must be for everthe Homer of the arts;ceasing to be that, as it does cease if it bewreathedwithornamentortorturedintometaphor,it ceases also to be art. Marble must speak tothe people as it did of old over the blue Ægean—sea andunder the woods of Pelion, or be dumba mere tricked-out doU offancy and of fashion.She knew tins, she who had been trained byMaryx;and evenhad she forgottenhis teachings,her own genius, cast on broad andnoble lines,would have obeyed the axiom bydistinct.vol. hi.K
- Page 133 and 134: ARIADNE. 125parts of Rome; a turn o
- Page 135 and 136: ARIADNE. 127seek to go away. He sto
- Page 137 and 138: ARIADNE. 129speak the truth. Yetit
- Page 139 and 140: ARIADNE. 131seems to me that you ar
- Page 141 and 142: ARIADNE. 133beauty against the gran
- Page 143 and 144: ARIADNE. 135Hilarion laughed ahttle
- Page 145 and 146: ARIADNE. 137that mirroredhim." That
- Page 147 and 148: ARIADNE. 139to be always seeing hea
- Page 149 and 150: ARIADNE. 141He laughed a httle, par
- Page 151 and 152: ARIADNE. 143ThenIturned,and woulcl
- Page 153 and 154: ARIADNE. 145other gain from her a m
- Page 155 and 156: ARIADNE. 147dead things none are so
- Page 157 and 158: ARIADNE. 149sometimes, and knew tho
- Page 159 and 160: ARIADNE. 151her; she was vaguely op
- Page 161 and 162: ARIADNE. 153She stayed aU the summe
- Page 163 and 164: ARIADNE. 155of tlie Nonii, to the s
- Page 165 and 166: ARIADNE. 157Then hot tears filled h
- Page 167 and 168: ARIADNE. 159A Divine City indeed, h
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- Page 175 and 176: ARIADNE. 167never touched Maryx onc
- Page 177 and 178: ARIADNE. 169coidd not end the phras
- Page 179 and 180: ARIADNE. 171" Iwoulcl notpromise,"
- Page 181 and 182: ARIADNE. 173that are vile canbe fai
- Page 183: CHAPTER XLThe months went on, and s
- Page 187 and 188: ARIADNE. 179" Is that aU that you k
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- Page 191 and 192: ARIADNE. 183would change places wit
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- Page 203 and 204: ARIADNE. 195" Take my life away wit
- Page 205 and 206: ARIADNE. 197talked of; it took a ti
- Page 207 and 208: ARIADNE. 199pale Carrara marble, an
- Page 209 and 210: ARIADNE. 201bit his tired senses in
- Page 211 and 212: ARIADNE. 203pure a breath of heaven
- Page 213 and 214: ARIADNE. 205before the world, and h
- Page 215 and 216: ARIADNE. 207— for her sake. He kn
- Page 217 and 218: ARIADNE. 209" Do they indeed caU he
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- Page 227 and 228: ARIADNE. 219" Oh my God ! "Maryx gr
- Page 229 and 230: ARIADNE. 221canIsay to move you? If
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176 ARIADNE.months after the day thatIhad led her throughthe Chiaramonti Gallery to Hermes — whenIhad gone to ask for her, as never a day passedbutIdid do, and Ersilia also, she opened thedoor of her lofty studio and came down a fewof the stone stairs tomy side." Come," she said to me; and then Iknewthat she had foundher strength and compassedsome greatlabour.<strong>The</strong> studio was a wide and lofty place, withwaUs and floor of stone, and narrow windowsthat opened in their centre on a hinge, andthe plants that grew upon the roof hung clownbefore their bars, and the pigeons flew in andoutin the daytime." Look," she said, and led me in and let mestand before the statue she had made, and whichshe had herself cut out from theblock, andshapedin every line,till it stood there,a white and wondrousthing, erect in the sunlight shining fromthe skies, and seemed to live,nay,to leap forthto life as the Apollo does inBelvidere.Itwas the same form that she had made iiithe clay at Venice and at Paris; that is, it was
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