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While waiting in the studio Ledscha had used the time to satisfy her curiosity

What was there not to be seen!

On pedestals and upon the boards of the floor, on boxes, racks, and along the wall, stood, lay, or hung the greatest variety of articles: plaster casts of human limbs and parts of the bodies of aniarlands, all sorts of sculptor's tools, a ladder, vases, cups and jars for wine and water, a frame over which linen and soft woollen materials were spread, a lute and a zither, several seats, an armchair, and in one corner a s tablets, metal styluses, and reed pens

All these articles were arranged haphazard, and showed that Bias possessed more wisdom than care in the use of duster and broos brought together here, but the unusually long, wide roolance sometimes at one object, so or its use

The huge figure on the pedestal in the ht fell through the open as certainly the statue of the goddess on which Herray cloth concealed it froaze

How tall it was!

When she looked at it more closely she felt sed her to remove the cloth, but the boldness of the act restrained her After she had taken another survey of the spacious apartht, the torturing feeling of being neglected gained possession of her

She clinched her white teeth more firain without bringing the man she expected, she went up to the statue which she had already walked past quietly several ti an ioddess, now illuold and snowy ivory

She had never seen such a statue, and drew back dazzled

What aheart!

He had created a Demeter; the wheat in her hand showed it

How beautiful this as--and how valuable! It produced a powerful impression upon her s

The goddess before her was the very one whose statue stood in the temple of Demeter, and to whoer threatened the harvest Involuntarily she removed the lower veil from her face and raised her hand in prayer