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Kenyon, it will be remembered, had asked Donatello's permission to ress, and necessarily

kept the sculptor's thoughts brooding much and often upon his host's

personal characteristics These it was his difficult office to bring out

fro them what they

could not discern for thelance, on the surface of a block of ave him so much trouble

as Donatello's; not that there was any special difficulty in hitting

the likeness, though even in this respect the grace and harmony of

the features seemed inconsistent with a prominent expression of

individuality; but he was chiefly perplexed how to enial and

kind type of countenance the index of the mind within His acuteness and

his sympathies, indeed, were both sohten hih which the Count was now

passing If at one sitting he caught a glienuine and permanent trait, it would probably be less perceptible on

a second occasion, and perhaps have vanished entirely at a third So

evanescent a show of character threw the sculptor into despair; not

marble or clay, but cloud and vapor, was the ht to be represented Even the ponderous depression which constantly

weighed upon Donatello's heart could not compel him into the kind of

repose which the plastic art requires