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Mr Casaubon, seeing Dorothea look earnestly towards him, could not but

ask her if she would be interested in such visits: he was now at her

service during the whole day; and it was agreed that Will should come

on the morrow and drive with the celebrity about whom even Mr

Casaubon inquired, but before the day was far advanced he led the way

to the studio of his friend Adolf Naumann, whom he mentioned as one of

the chief renovators of Christian art, one of those who had not only

revived but expanded that grand conception of suprees were spectators, and in relation

to which the great souls of all periods became as it were

contemporaries Will added that he had made hi so I

the Saints drawing the Car of the Church, and I have beenthe Conquered Kings in his

Chariot I am not so ecclesiastical as Nau But this time I mean to outdo him in

breadth of intention I take Tamburlaine in his chariot for the

tre on the

harnessed dynasties In ood mythical

interpretation" Will here looked at Mr Casaubon, who received this

offhand treatment of symbolism very uneasily, and boith a neutral

air

"The sketch rand, if it conveys so much," said Dorothea

"I should need soive Do you

intend Tamburlaine to represent earthquakes and volcanoes?"