"But it has an effect as if I could see this countenance gradually brightening while I look at it.

It gives the impression of a growing intellectual power and moral sense.

Donatello's face used to evince little more than a genial, pleasurable sort of vivacity, and capability of enjoyment.

But here, a soul is being breathed into him; it is the Faun, but advancing towards a state of higher development." "Hilda, do you see all this ?" exclaimed Kenyon, in considerable surprise.

"I may have had such an idea in my mind, but was quite unaware that I had succeeded in conveying it into the marble." "Forgive me," said Hilda, "but I question whether this striking effect has been brought about by any skill or purpose on the sculptor's part.
Is it not, perhaps, the chance result of the bust being just so far shaped out, in the marble, as the process of moral growth had advanced in the original?
A few more strokes of the chisel might change the whole expression, and so spoil it for what it is now worth." "I believe you are right," answered Kenyon, thoughtfully examining his work; "and, strangely enough, it was the very expression that I tried unsuccessfully to produce in the clay model.