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The Marble Faun
Volume I.

CHAPTER XII
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But there was no renewal of that distant mirth.

Soon afterwards they saw a solitary figure advancing along one of the paths that lead from the obscurer part of the ground towards the gateway.
"Look! is it not Donatello ?" said Hilda.
"He it is, beyond a doubt," replied the sculptor.

"But how gravely he walks, and with what long looks behind him! He seems either very weary, or very sad.

I should not hesitate to call it sadness, if Donatello were a creature capable of the sin and folly of low spirits.

In all these hundred paces, while we have been watching him, he has not made one of those little caprioles in the air which are characteristic of his natural gait.


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