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yet similar, beauty and brilliancy from 

 destruction : on the contrary, it is changed 

 by a slow process, into something totally 

 different from its former self ; and that 

 butterfly there, with his painted wings, is 

 not more unlike the chrysalis from which 

 it proceeded, than the St. Peter's you here 

 see in its glory, is unlike the St. Peter s> 

 which some future age, (I hope a far dist* 

 ant one) will admire as a ruin/' 



" I like the first part of your explanation 

 go well," said Mr. Howard, " that I will 

 not quarrel with you about the end of it; 

 and, indeed, I want you both to return to 

 the gallery as soon as you have looked at 

 the two other pictures ; for, if I am not 

 mistaken, I shall mew you a fruit-piece, 

 which you will prefer to any of Baptist, or 

 Van Huyssun." 



When they had returned to the gallery 

 (though not till they had paid proper atten- 

 tion to the other lanini, and the Parmeg- 

 giano), they fount that the servant had 

 brought in a qu aatity of beautiful fruit ; 

 and among the res", some remarkably fine 



