Cannot you throw off your troubles under this sky ?" "You know that the sky matters very little to me, Cecily." "If I could give you only half my delight! I was awake before dawn this morning, and it was impossible to lie still I dressed and stood at the open window.

I couldn't see the sun itself as it rose, but I watched the first beams strike on Capri and the sea; and I tried to make a drawing of the island as it then looked,--a poor little daub, but it will be precious in bringing back to my mind all I felt when I was busy with it.

Such feeling I have never known; as if every nerve in me had received an exquisite new sense.

I keep saying to myself, 'Is this really Naples ?' Let us go on to the balcony.

Oh, you _must_ be glad with me!" Freed from the constraint of formal colloquy, and overcoming the slight embarrassment caused by what she knew of Miriam's thoughts, Cecily revealed her nature as it lay beneath the graces with which education had endowed her.