Besides, he is a merchant who sets a high value upon what he has earned, and Hermon's refusal of his gold startled him.

Then the good man also saw how nobly, in spite of his wild life, his obstinacy, and the work so unpleasing to him, his nephew always showed the noble impulses inherited from his brave father, and thus Hermon gained the day." "But what would have become of him last year, after the mortifying rejection of his model of The Happy Return Home for the harbour of Eunostus," asked Myrtilus, "if you and your encouragement had not cheered him ?" "That verdict, too, was abominable!" exclaimed Daphne indignantly.

"The mother opening her arms to the returning son was unlovely, it is true, and did not please me either; but the youth with the travelling hat and staff is magnificent in his vigour and natural action." "That opinion, as you know, is mine also," replied Myrtilus.

"In the mother the expression was intended to take the place of beauty.

For the returning son, as well as for the fig-eater, he found a suitable model.
True, the best was at his disposal for his Demeter." Here he hesitated; but Daphne so urgently asked to know what he, who had already denied her admission to the studios, was now again withholding from her, that, smiling indulgently, he added: "Then I must probably consent to tell in advance the secret with which you were to be surprised.