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“You are young, dears, and however clever young people are, and however many books they read, they will never guess what it feels like to grow old.”

“But Italy worked some marvel in her. It gave her light, and—which he held more precious—it gave her shadow… She was like a woman of Leonardo da Vinci’s, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us.”