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artist turned round, and beheld with amazement the 

 usually benign features of his venerable teacher flash- 

 ing upon him with irrepressible anger, which was the 

 more impressive because the Cavaliere had just re- 

 turned from a visit to the Doge, and was richly attired 

 in the imposing patrician costume of the period. 

 Around his neck was the golden chain hung there 

 by the imperial hands of Eodolph the Second, and 

 he wore the richly enamelled barret, and lofty heron's 

 plume, which the same picture-loving emperor had 

 placed upon his head when he knighted him as a 

 reward for the noble pictures he had painted in Ger- 

 many. There was a true and fine air of nobility in 

 his lofty form and well-marked features a character 

 of matured thought and intellectual power in the 

 expansive brow, and in the firm gaze of his large 

 dark eyes, as yet undimmed by age with evidence of 

 decision and self-respect, and habitual composure in 

 the finely formed motith and chin. Thus splendidly 

 arrayed, and thus dignified in form, features, and ex- 

 pression, this distinguished man recalled so powerfully 

 to the memory of his imaginative pupil the high- 

 minded Doges of the heroic period of Venice, and the 

 imposing portraits of Titian's senators, that, with a 

 deep sense of his own moral inferiority, he obeyed in 

 silence, and with starting tears removed the offending 

 sketch. Then placing before him a small picture of 

 a weeping and lovely Magdalen by Contarini, which 

 he had xmdertaken to copy, he began the sketch, 



