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The Marble Faun
Volume II.

CHAPTER XXXI
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If he linger here much longer, I fear that he may sink back into a lethargy.

The extreme excitability, which circumstances have imparted to his moral system, has its dangers and its advantages; it being one of the dangers, that an obdurate scar may supervene upon its very tenderness.

Solitude has done what it could for him; now, for a while, let him be enticed into the outer world." "What is your plan, then ?" asked Miriam.
"Simply," replied Kenyon, "to persuade Donatello to be my companion in a ramble among these hills and valleys.

The little adventures and vicissitudes of travel will do him infinite good.

After his recent profound experience, he will re-create the world by the new eyes with which he will regard it.


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