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"Now, sir, if you can oblige ain; I will release the lady-wife"

So Mr Casaubon's patience held out further, and when after all it

turned out that the head of Saint Tho could be had, it was granted for the morrow On the

morrow Santa Clara too was retouched more than once The result of all

was so far froed for the

purchase of the picture in which Saint Tho the

doctors of the Church in a disputation too abstract to be represented,

but listened to with more or less attention by an audience above 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 Nau, or on his dithyrambs about Dorothea's charm, in all which Will

joined, but with a difference No sooner did Nauot exasperated at his

presurossness in his choice of the most ordinary

words, and what business had he to talk of her lips? She was not a

woman to be spoken of as other woht, but he became irritable And yet, when after some

resistance he had consented to take the Casaubons to his friend's