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The young painters had their jokes about it; even Mr Morton sene did not sarded the

lovers with an interest in them scarcely less intense than their

interest in each other; and a cold perspiration of question broke out on

Colville's forehead Was that her ideal of what her own engagement

should be? Had she expected him to behave in that way to her, and to

accept froirl's? How bitterly he must have

disappointed her! It was so iht of it

made hi

like it And yet he reflected that the time hen he could have been

equal to that, and even ain, and they all went together

to visit the ruins of the Roman theatre and the stretch of Etruscan wall

beyond it The fore blocks of

stone lie as firo; the turf creeps to the edge at top, and so the crest of the wall, whose ancient face, clean and bare, looks

sternly out over a vast prospect, now young and s The piety or interest of the couards

the entrance to the theatre by a fee of certain centesirass and vines which are

stealing the half-excavated arena back to forgetfulness and decay; but