His very gait showed it, in a certain gravity, a weight and measure of step, that had nothing in common with the irregular buoyancy which used to distinguish him.

His face was paler and thinner, and the lips less full and less apart.
"I have looked for you a long while," said Donatello; and, though his voice sounded differently, and cut out its words more sharply than had been its wont, still there was a smile shining on his face, that, for the moment, quite brought back the Faun.

"I shall be more cheerful, perhaps, now that you have come.

It is very solitary here." "I have come slowly along, often lingering, often turning aside," replied Kenyon; "for I found a great deal to interest me in the mediaeval sculpture hidden away in the churches hereabouts.

An artist, whether painter or sculptor, may be pardoned for loitering through such a region.