I should like you to know them both.

Then there is that dear Mr.Page.Yes, and Harriet Hosmer, the young American sculptress, who is an immense favorite with us both.
A comfort is that Robert is considered here to be looking better than he ever was known to look.

And this notwithstanding the greyness of his beard, which indeed is, in my own mind, very becoming to him, the argentine touch giving a character of elevation and thought to the whole physiognomy.

This greyness was suddenly developed; let me tell you how.
He was in a state of bilious irritability on the morning of his arrival in Rome from exposure to the sun or some such cause, and in a fit of suicidal impatience shaved away his whole beard, whiskers and all! I _cried_ when I saw him, I was so horror-struck.

I might have gone into hysterics and still been reasonable; for no human being was ever so disfigured by so simple an act.