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"My dear Count," said he, "I have a proposal to make Youyour bust You re resemblance we all of us--Hilda, Miriam, and I--found between

your features and those of the Faun of Praxiteles Then, it seemed an

identity; but now that I know your face better, the likeness is far less

apparent Your head in marble would be a treasure to me Shall I have

it?"

"I have a weakness which I fear I cannot overco away his face "It troubles me to be looked at steadfastly"

"I have observed it since we have been sitting here, though never

before," rejoined the sculptor "It is a kind of nervousness, I

apprehend, which, you caught in the Rorows upon you,

in your solitary life It need be no hindrance toyour bust;

for I will catch the likeness and expression by side glimpses, which

(if portrait painters and busthome

richer results than a broad stare"

"You may take me if you have the power," said Donatello; but, even as he

spoke, he turned away his face; "and if you can see what makes me shrink

from you, you are welcome to put it in the bust It is not my will, but