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Kid Twist stood again by the side of Bert Rhine and Guido Bombini fawned near. Bert Rhine actually visibly smiled. "Any more of you guys want to promenade aft?" he queried in velvet tones. "Two minutes up," Mr. Pike declared. "An' what are you goin' to do about it, Grandpa?" Bert Rhine sneered.
You possess all the advantages that they want; you know the languages in perfection, and have constantly kept the best company in the places where you have been; so that you ought to be an European. Your canvas is solid and strong, your outlines are good; but remember that you still want the beautiful coloring of Titian, and the delicate, graceful touches of Guido. Now is your time to get them.
No capital, even in Italy, is richer in splendid and antique churches, in superbly decorated palaces, and with the exception of Rome and Florence, no city has more invaluable art treasures. Here the works of Guido, Paul Veronese, Titian, Bonifacio, Giordano, and Tintoretto especially abound. The Venetian school of painting maintains precedence even in our day.
Among this artist's most noted works will be remembered his "Descent from the Cross," which tourists visiting the Torlonia chapel in the Lateran never gaze upon without a thrill. The house was owned and also occupied by Bienaimé, a French sculptor who afterward became famous. This palace contains many paintings of historical interest by Raphael, Titian, Guido, Claude and others.
Perhaps Lamberti had guessed at a glance that she would not like him. He would of course keep such an opinion to himself. Guido watched Cecilia narrowly from the moment she caught sight of him with Lamberti so attentively indeed that he did not even glance at the latter's face. It was set like a mask, and under the tanned colour any one could see that the man turned pale.
If I am beautiful, is that my fault? If men are fools, can I help it? You loved me Guido loved me could I prevent it? I cared nothing for him, and less for you!" "I know it," I said, bitterly. "Love was never part of YOUR nature! Our lives were but cups of wine for your false lips to drain; once the flavor pleased you, but now now, think you not the dregs taste somewhat cold?"
A simple list of the pictures to be found here would cover many pages in print, embracing the names of such artists as Salvator Rosa, Giorgone, Bassano, Perugino, Carlo Dolce, Guido Reni, Rembrandt, Andrea del Sarto, Van Dyck, etc. All of these paintings are high in artistic merit; many of them are admirable, and all are beyond price in money.
Guido was soon too much occupied to miss the daily companionship, and was glad to be alone, when he could not be with Cecilia. He no longer concealed from himself that he was very much in love with her, and that, compared with this fact, nothing in his previous life had been of any importance whatever. Even the circumstances of his position with regard to his aunt sank into insignificance.
"You say, too, that you mean never to see this other man again." "I cannot help seeing him if I stay longer in Rome," Cecilia said. Lamberti wondered who he might be, with growing hatred of him. "If he is an honourable man, and if he had the slightest idea that he had unconsciously come between you and Guido, he would go away at once." "Perhaps he could not," Cecilia suggested. "That is absurd."
Raphael grows upon me; several other famous painters Guido, for instance are fading out of my mind. Salvator Rosa has two really wonderful landscapes, looking from the shore seaward; and Rubens too, likewise on a large scale, of mountain and plain.
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