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After the sculptor's arrival, however, the young Count sometimes

ca the

neighboring woods and hills He led his friend tonooks,

hich he himself had been familiar in his childhood But of late,

as he rerown thenized the places

which he had known and loved so well

To the sculptor's eye, nevertheless, they were still rich with beauty

They were picturesque in that sweetly i lapse of years, has crept over scenes that have been once adorned

with the careful art and toil of man; and when man could do no ht hand in hand to bring the-tree that had run wild

and taken to wife the vine, which likewise had gone ras had tangled and

knotted the their various

progeny--the luscious figs, the grapes, oozy with the Southern juice,

and both endoith a wild flavor that added the final charether

In Kenyon's opinion, never was any other nook so lovely as a certain

little dell which he and Donatello visited It was hollowed in alimpse of the broad, fertile valley A fountain

had its birth here, and fell into a y ater-weeds Over the gush of the small