San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-13

He seemed to be eating agith all the relish
in the aOOTld.
tiers, and this, though very rough, was
most artificial, making the room look
twice its height, and the most admira-
BILE, mastery drawing that I did ever
see.
And now Moll, who had prepared a
courteous speech to cover the contempt
she expected to feel for the work, could
say naught for establishment. but stood
casting her eyes round at the work like
one in maze.
eff you would prefer an allegory of
figures says Dario, misconceiving her
silence.
May" answers she, II would have
nothing altered. IT'S wonderful how
such effect can be made with mere lines
of black. can scarce believe the cell
ing is fat" and then she drops her eyes
upon Dario, regarding him with won
der, as if doubling that such dirty
looking man could have worked this
miracle.
"You must have seen better designs
in Rome" says he.
At this l took alarm, not thinking fol
the moment that he might have picked
up sonb particulars Of Judith Godwin's
history from Mrs Butterfly or the Gu
rious servants who were ever prying III
the room.
tbs so long ago." says Moll readily.
81 think have seen something like
it in the Holy City," observes the don
critically.
Probably. Nothing has been left I'M
done in Rome, am told. 1t has not
been my good fortune to get so far.
This was good news, for otherwise he
might have put some posers to Moll,
which she had found it hard to answer
without betraying her ignorance.
Having Moll's approval, Dario set to
work forthwith to color his perspective,
and this he did with the same firm hand
of one who understands his business and
with such nice Judgment that no build
er whose design - ordered by fixed rule
and line could accomplish his work with
greater truth and justice. He made it
to appear that the lower part Of his
vaulted roof was wainscoted in the
style of the walls, and to such perfec-
ton that 'twould have puzzled con-
jurer to decide where the oaken panels
ended and the painted ones began.
And now Moll suffers her fancies to
run wild again and could not sufficient
ly marvel over this poor painter and his
work, of which she would discourse to
sucn lengths that both the don and I at
times had some ado to stifle our yawns
She would have it that he was no COM
mon man, but some great genius, COM
PEELED by misfortune or the persecution
of rivals to wander abroad in disguise,
taking for evidence the very facts which
had lately led her to condemn him,
pointing out that whereas those young
gentlemen who courted her so persist
emily did endeavor ON all occasions to
make their estate and natural parts ap-
pear greater than they were, this Dario
did not, showing that he had no such
need of fictitious advancement and could
we'll afford to let the world judge of his
worth by his works, etc. This point we
did not contest, only we were very we'll
content to observe that he introduced no
one into the house, had no friends in the
village-to our acknowledgement that
naught was lacking from our store of
plate.
She never tired of watching him at
his work, having the hardihood to
mount upon the scaffold where he stood,
and there she would sit by the hour ON
a little stool, chatting like any magpie,
when the nature of his occupation al
lowed his thoughts to wander, silent as
a mouse when she perceived that his
mind was absorbed in travail, ready at
any moment to fetch this or hold t'other
and seizing every opportunity to serve
him. Indeed believe she would gladly
have helped him shift the heavy planks
when he would have their position al
tered had he permitted her this rough
usage of her delicate hands.
One day, when he was about to begin
the foliage upon his balcony, he brought
in spray of ivy for a model Then
Moll told him she knew where much
better was to be found and would have
him go with her to see it. And she
coming back from this expedition, with
her arms full of bryony and heritage, rich
ly tinted by the first frost, perceived
that there was new kind of beauty in
ht face, a radiance of great happiness
lid satisfaction which had never seen
AersSefore.
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