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When he said, "Does this interest you, Dorothea? Shall we stay a

little longer? I aoing or staying were alike dreary Or, "Should you like to go

to the Farnesina, Dorothea? It contains celebrated frescos designed or

painted by Raphael, which most persons think it worth while to visit"

"But do you care about them?" was always Dorothea's question

"They are, I believe, highly esteemed Some of them represent the

fable of Cupid and Psyche, which is probably the romantic invention of

a literary period, and cannot, I think, be reckoned as a genuine

s we can easily

drive thither; and you will then, I think, have seen the chief works of

Raphael, any of which it were a pity to omit in a visit to Rome He is

the painter who has been held to corace of

forathered to be

the opinion of cognoscenti"

This kind of answer given in ato the rubric, did not help to justify the

glories of the Eternal City, or to give her the hope that if she knew

more about them the world would be joyously illu to a young ardent creature than

that of a e seem to have issued in

a blank absence of interest or sympathy

On other subjects indeed Mr Casaubon showed a tenacity of occupation

and an eagerness which are usually regarded as the effect of

enthusiasm, and Dorothea was anxious to follow this spontaneous