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"Of course," replied Daphne, "ht was entirely his own True, Her to his taste, but it pleased hiree with Euphranor, it is remarkably true to nature My father perceived this too Besides, he is a h value upon what he has earned, and Herood man also sa nobly, in spite of his wild life, his obstinacy, and the work so unpleasing to him, his nepheays showed the noble iained the day"

"But ould have beco rejection of his model of The Happy Return Home for the harbour of Eunostus," asked Myrtilus, "if you and your encouragement had not cheered him?"

"That verdict, too, was abo her ar son was unlovely, it is true, and did not pleasehat and staff is our and natural action"

"That opinion, as you know, is mine also," replied Myrtilus "In the mother the expression was intended to take the place of beauty For the returning son, as well as for the fig-eater, he found a suitable model True, the best was at his disposal for his Deently asked to knohat he, who had already denied her ad froently, he added: "Then I must probably consent to tell in advance the secret hich you were to be surprised Before him, as well as before me, hovered--since you wish to know it--in Alexandria, e first began toface which is as dear to one as to the other"

Daphne, joyously excited, held out her hand to the artist, exclai: "Oh, how kind that is! Yet hoas it possible, since I posed neither to him nor to you?"

"Hermon had finished your bust only a short time before, and you peroddess of Peace, which went doith the ship on the voyage to Ostia This was at the disposal of us both in three or four reproductions, and, besides, it hovered before our h When the time to show you our work arrives, you will be surprised to discover how differently two persons see and copy the same object"