Essays on Life 



These long photographic exposures have 

 the advantage that one is compelled to study 

 a work in detail through mere lack of other 

 employment, and that one can take one's 

 notes in peace without being tempted to hurry 

 over them ; but even so I continually find I 

 have omitted to note, and have clean forgotten, 

 much that I want later on. 



In the other annex there are also one or 

 two younger children, but it seems to have 

 been set apart for conversation and relaxation 

 more than any other part of the establish- 

 ment. 



I have already said that the work is 

 signed by an inscription inside the chapel, to 

 the effect that the sculptures are by Pietro 

 Aureggio Termine di Biella. It will be seen 

 that the young ladies are exceedingly like one 

 another, and that the artist aimed at nothing 

 more than a faithful rendering of the life of his 

 own times. Let us be thankful that he aimed 

 at nothing less. Perhaps his wife kept a girls' 

 school ; or he may have had a large family of 

 fat, good-natured daughters, whose little ways 



he had studied attentively ; at all events the 



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