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Between Hilda and the sculptor there had been a kind of half-expressed

understanding, that both were to visit the galleries of the Vatican

the day subsequent to their ly,

failed not to be there, and wandered through the vast ranges of

apart of his expected friend Thethe walls, and have kept theh the vicissitudes of twenty centuries, had no sympathy

for his disappointment; and he, on the other hand, strode past these

treasures and marvels of antique art, with the indifference which any

preoccupation of the feelings is apt to produce, in reference to objects

of sculpture Being of so cold and pure a substance, and ht than passion, they require to be seen

through a perfectly transparent medium

And, moreover, Kenyon had counted sohim to look at two or three of the statues,

about which they had talked together, that the entire purpose of his

visit was defeated by her absence It is a delicious sort of mutual aid,

when the united power of two syht to bear upon a poe it aloud, or upon a picture

or statue by viewing it in each other's coht of either party is wonderfully

deepened, and the comprehension broadened; so that the inner enius, hidden fro such help, Kenyon saw nothing at the Vatican which he had not