Of course, you do not understand the art, Paolo, but I will explain it all to you in a few minutes--" Marzio talked very fast, almost incoherently, and he was evidently struggling with an emotion.

Paolo, standing back a little from the bench, nodded his head from time to time.
"It is all very simple," continued the artist, as though he dared not pause for breath.

"You see one sometimes makes little figures of real _repousse_, half and half, done in cement and then soldered together so that they look like one piece, but it is impossible to do them well unless you have dies to press the plate into the first shape--and the die always makes the same figure, though you can vary the face and twist the arms and legs about.

Cheap silver crucifixes and angels and those things are all made in that way, and with care a great deal can be done, of course, to give them an artistic look." "Of course," assented Don Paolo, in a low voice.

He thought he understood the cause of his brother's eloquence.
"Yes, of course," continued Marzio, as rapidly as before.