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The Marble Faun
Volume II.

CHAPTER XXXI
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You will find me there!" Kenyon assented to the proposed arrangement, and, after some conversation respecting his contemplated line of travel, prepared to take his leave.

As he met Miriam's eyes, in bidding farewell, he was surprised at the new, tender gladness that beamed out of them, and at the appearance of health and bloom, which, in this little while, had overspread her face.' "May I tell you, Miriam," said he, smiling, "that you are still as beautiful as ever ?" "You have a right to notice it," she replied, "for, if it be so, my faded bloom has been revived by the hopes you give me.

Do you, then, think me beautiful?
I rejoice, most truly.

Beauty--if I possess it--shall be one of the instruments by which I will try to educate and elevate him, to whose good I solely dedicate myself." The sculptor had nearly reached the door, when, hearing her call him, he turned back, and beheld Miriam still standing where he had left her, in the magnificent hall which seemed only a fit setting for her beauty.

She beckoned him to return.
"You are a man of refined taste," said she; "more than that,--a man of delicate sensibility.


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