The more time you spend among them, the more you care for them." After a moment's hesitation he went on: "Why should you grudge time?
It 's all in your way, since you are to be an artist's wife." "I have thought of that," she said.

"It may be that I shall always live here, among the most beautiful things in the world!" "Very possibly! I should like to see you ten years hence." "I dare say I shall seem greatly altered.

But I am sure of one thing." "Of what ?" "That for the most part I shall be quite the same.

I ask nothing better than to believe the fine things you say about my understanding, but even if they are true, it won't matter.

I shall be what I was made, what I am now--a young woman from the country! The fruit of a civilization not old and complex, but new and simple." "I am delighted to hear it: that 's an excellent foundation." "Perhaps, if you show me anything more, you will not always think so kindly of it.