The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-01-21
<<D oMoLA mia" said the blint
tx scholar, "thOu wilt re &c s.
~ the needful yolumes--tho

kkn OMOLA mia, saiu inc pilnu
sSK scholar, '.thou wilt reach
~ the needful yolumes-thou
knowest them-on the nth Shell OF
the cabinet"
Tito rose at the same moment win
Romola, saying. II will reach them. II
Won win point them out" and foi-
lowed her hastily into the adjoining
small room.
sThere they are" said Romola,
pointing upward: "every book Is JUST
where 1t was when my father ceased
to see them"
Tito stood by her without fastening
to reach the books.
"I hope" she continued. turning ner
ewes full on Tito, with look OF grave
confidence-"f hope he will not weary
Won: this work makes him so happyr'
aAnd me too, Romola--if you only
let me say, love you'll you will only
think me worth loving little"
His speech was the softest murmur,
and the dark beautiful face. nearer to
hers than 1t had ever been before
was looking at her with beseeching
tenderness. =.
'T do love you" murmured Homoia
abe looked at him with the same SIM
ple majesty as ever, but her voice had
never in her life before sunk to that
murmur. II seemed to them both that
they were looking at each other long
while before her lips moved again
vet Il was but a moment till she SAID
III know now what 1t Is to be happy.
4 The faces just met. and the dars
curls mingled for an instant with the
ripping gold. Quick as lightning aftei
that. Tito set his foot on a projecting
ledge of the book shelves and reached
down the needful volumes. They wer'
both contented to be silent and sep
arate. for that first blissful experience
az mutual consciousness was all TN
more exquisite for being unperturpe'
b immediate sensation.
II had all been as rapid as the II
reversible minglIng Of waters, for evel
the eager and jealous Bardo had no
become impatient
Whey they told her father, n
wanted time for reflection. "Be patien
my children; you are very young.
sNo more could be said, and nc
, mola's heart was perfectly satisfied
Not 40 Tito's. II the subtle mixtur
of good and evil prepares suffering 70
!, human truth and purity. there u ais
suffering prepared for the wrongdce
by the same mingled conditions. A
Tito kissed Romola on their partin
: that evening the very strength OF u
thrill that moved his whole being
the sense that this woman, who's
beauty II was hardly possible to thin
! Of a anything but the necessary COZ
! sequence OF her noble nature. love
. him with all the tenderness that spoil
U IN her clear eyes. brought q stror
! reaction Of regret that he had not kel
= himself free from that first dece
: which had dragged him into the "a
o rer Of being dlsgraced before he
v There was q spring Of bitterness mi
r eled with that fountain Of sweets"
: George Eliot's magnificent study
: character concerns itself with Flo
! ence at the time when Christoph
: Columbus was discovering Americ
when Sayonarola was prior OF Sal
a Marks and ruled the city by ,
II moral energy and his fanaticism, VIII
II his pious frenzies. his visions, and
II predictions Of heavenly wrath seem
II TO the majority Of his fellow cffize
II as coming from a more than mort
H source: when Charles the Eighth
II France invaded Italy when the plag
u brought dire dismay: when the G
was dIstraught by the struggles OF
austere devotees of Savonarola o
the gay partisans Of pleasure; WI
the mighty ones OF the land We
a united against poor distracted FL
NJ ence: when Piero de- Medici was G
or spiring to regain the power once h
hy Lorenzo the Magnificent; when
ally Florence turned against saw
arola. and he met his death
az ignomlny or martyrcom. as one view
Is. II as foe or partisan Across the sc'
ds. there fit, the figures Of Pico ds
Mlrandola, Of Fra Bartolommeo.
Domenico Ghirlandajo. OF Cossfno
zee PIero. OF Polizihno. Of Bernardo
cd Nero. OF Strokzis and Tornabuonis,
me Nicola aachlaveln, Of a spFonls