Shall I have it ?" "I have a weakness which I fear I cannot overcome," replied the Count, turning away his face.

"It troubles me to be looked at steadfastly." "I have observed it since we have been sitting here, though never before," rejoined the sculptor.

"It is a kind of nervousness, I apprehend, which, you caught in the Roman air, and which grows upon you, in your solitary life.

It need be no hindrance to my taking your bust; for I will catch the likeness and expression by side glimpses, which (if portrait painters and bust makers did but know it) always bring home richer results than a broad stare." "You may take me if you have the power," said Donatello; but, even as he spoke, he turned away his face; "and if you can see what makes me shrink from you, you are welcome to put it in the bust.

It is not my will, but my necessity, to avoid men's eyes.