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Having reached his li

But he tried water-colour painting after the ot his results but was not s of his beloved church, which had the saruous with the

, so that his church tower

stood up, really stood and asserted its standing, but was

ashaain

He took up jewellery, read Benvenuto Cellini, pored over

reproductions of ornaan to make pendants in silver

and pearl and s he did, in his start of

discovery, were really beautiful Those later werewith his wife, he s and bracelets

Then he took up beaten and chiselleda silver bowl of lovely shape How he

delighted in it, almost lusted after it

All this tih his winter evening classes, which brought him into

contact with state education About all the rest, he was

oblivious, and entirely indifferent--even about the war

The nation did not exist to him He was in a private retreat of

his own, that had neither nationality, nor any great

adherent

Ursula watched the newspapers, vaguely, concerning the war in