Nay, I remember, he once started back, as shyly as a wild deer, when Miriam made a pretence of examining them.

How do you explain that ?" "O, I certainly shall not contend against such a weight of evidence, the fact of his faunship being otherwise so probable," answered the sculptor, still hardly retaining his gravity.

"Faun or not, Donatello or the Count di Monte Beni--is a singularly wild creature, and, as I have remarked on other occasions, though very gentle, does not love to be touched.

Speaking in no harsh sense, there is a great deal of animal nature in him, as if he had been born in the woods, and had run wild all his childhood, and were as yet but imperfectly domesticated.

Life, even in our day, is very simple and unsophisticated in some of the shaggy nooks of the Apennines." "It annoys me very much," said Hilda, "this inclination, which most people have, to explain away the wonder and the mystery out of everything.