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The Santa Clara, which was spoken of in the second place, Naumann declared himself to be dissatisfied with he could not, in conscience, engage to make a worthy picture of it; so about the Santa Clara the arrangement was conditional. I will not dwell on Naumann's jokes at the expense of Mr.
As for Dorothea, nothing could have pleased her more, unless it had been a miraculous voice pronouncing Mr. Casaubon the wisest and worthiest among the sons of men. In that case her tottering faith would have become firm again. Naumann's apparatus was at hand in wonderful completeness, and the sketch went on at once as well as the conversation.
The few misprints he discovers in it he frankly attributes to his MS. In a letter to his friend Rosen he writes that "it must be a deucedly comic pleasure to read my Sanskrit." But his musical handwriting appears to have been nearer to Sanskrit than his epistolary, if we may judge by the specimen fac-similes printed in Naumann's "History of Music."
Will added that he had made himself Naumann's pupil for the nonce. "I have been making some oil-sketches under him," said Will. "I hate copying. I must put something of my own in. Naumann has been painting the Saints drawing the Car of the Church, and I have been making a sketch of Marlowe's Tamburlaine Driving the Conquered Kings in his Chariot.
"Is that true?" said Dorothea, turning her sincere eyes on Naumann, who made a slight grimace and said "Oh, he does not mean it seriously with painting. His walk must be belles-lettres. That is wi-ide." Naumann's pronunciation of the vowel seemed to stretch the word satirically. Will did not half like it, but managed to laugh: and Mr.