CHAPTER XXV.
SUNSHINE "Come," said the Count, "I see you already find the old house dismal.
So do I, indeed! And yet it was a cheerful place in my boyhood.

But, you see, in my father's days (and the same was true of all my endless line of grandfathers, as I have heard), there used to be uncles, aunts, and all manner of kindred, dwelling together as one family.

They were a merry and kindly race of people, for the most part, and kept one another's hearts warm." "Two hearts might be enough for warmth," observed the sculptor, "even in so large a house as this.

One solitary heart, it is true, may be apt to shiver a little.

But, I trust, my friend, that the genial blood of your race still flows in many veins besides your own ?" "I am the last," said Donatello gloomily.