"At this time, which is of such great importance to you and your art ?" Then she interrupted herself to ask Myrtilus's opinion, but as he had gone away coughing, she continued, in a softer tone: "How anxious you can make one, Hermon! Has anything really happened which clouds your pleasure in creating, and your hope of success ?" "Let us wait," he answered, hastily throwing back his head, with its thick, waving raven locks.

"If, in leaping over the ditch, I should fall into the marsh, I must endure it, if thereby I can only reach the shore where my roses bloom!" "Then you fear that you have failed in the Demeter ?" asked Daphne.
"Failed ?" repeated the other.

"That seems too strong.

Only the work is not proving as good as I originally expected.

For the head we both used a model--you will see--whose fitness could not be surpassed.