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Updated: May 2, 2025
As the maiden ascends the steps of the Temple, a halo surrounds her, not her head alone, but all the form, and far away a fainter halo rests upon the hills. Her youth, its purity and half-recognized promise, seem sweetly imaged in the morning freshness and spring-life of the landscape. We can remember no landscape by Titian which is not in full sympathy with the motives which actuate his groups.
It was Sir Everard Valletort. "Clara, my beloved wife!" he exclaimed, to the astonishment of all who heard him, "pollute not your lips by further communion with such a wretch; his heart is as inaccessible to pity as the rugged rocks on which his spring-life was passed. For Heaven's sake, for my sake, linger not within his reach. There is death in his very presence."
Behind me a most musical clock, marking now 24 Minutes past 1 P.M. On my left two great windows looking out on the court in front of the house, through one of which, slightly opened, comes in gushes the soft damp breath, with a tone of spring-life in it, which the close of an English February sometimes brings so different from a November mildness.
It was Sir Everard Valletort. "Clara, my beloved wife!" he exclaimed, to the astonishment of all who heard him, "pollute not your lips by further communion with such a wretch; his heart is as inaccessible to pity as the rugged rocks on which his spring-life was passed. For Heaven's sake, for my sake, linger not within his reach. There is death in his very presence."
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