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Updated: May 28, 2025
Many days afterward, when it was certain that the little foreign image-vender had indeed departed, Eve stole over to the bench beneath the lofty arches of the elm-tree, all checkered with flickering sunlight, and endeavored to read the sentence carved thereon. It was at first undecipherable, and then, the text conquered, not easy for her to comprehend.
"Is he so sweet and lofty and fiery because he has lived in the shadow of old temples, because, if he stumbled over a pebble in the street, it was the marble fragment of a goddess, because the clay of which he is made has so many times been moulded into heroes?" "Are there no further fancies with which you can invest an image-vender?" "But he is unique. Did you ever see any one like him?
The kind face, the pleasant voice, attracted him; in a moment after, while she was yet thinking of it, the door was pushed partly open, a dark boy, smiling, appeared, followed by the unslung tray, and a voice like a flute said, "Sono io, it is I. Will the lady buy?" And then the image-vender showed his wares.
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