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want it She was io that heaven, that's

all--at any rate the needle's eye sort" And she dis to be as poor as the Wherrys, not

for all the sayings on earth--the miserable squalid

Wherrys

So she reverted to the non-literal application of the

scriptures Her father very rarely read, but he had collected

many books of reproductions, and he would sit and look at these,

curiously intent, like a child, yet with a passion that was not

childish He loved the early Italian painters, but particularly

Giotto and Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi The great

compositions cast a spell over him How many times had he turned

to Raphael's "Dispute of the Sacras of the

Adoration of the Magi, and always, each tiht It had to do with the

establishment of a whole ure as a unit Soelico "Last Judgraves, the huddled earth on either side, the see process to paradise on the one hand,

the stuttering descent to hell on the other, completed and

satisfied him He did not care whether or not he believed in

devils or angels The whole conception gave hi more