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THE GOLDEN SUPPER
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the hall. She was so like her picture that some said that Camilla must have had a sister who had come to take her place; but others called her a cousin, and still others thought her some woman from a foreign clime whose marvelous likeness to Lionel's dead bride had led Julian to bring her to his home.
Questions came thick and fast, but Camilla made no reply, and when they asked her if she was dumb, it was Julian who answered for her. "She is dumb because she stands, like that poor slave of whom we lately spoke, obedient to the master, who, by your own decree, has every right. Now shall I excel the Persian, for I
give, to my beloved guest, that which I hold most dear!"
Simply he told the story of his love for the foster sister that had shared his childhood days, told of the vision of the bells that had rang, first marriage, then death, and then joy again. Told of her trance, of his visit to the vault, of her return to life, the birth of her young son, and, then, rising, led to Lionel the bride he thought was dead.
And with the climax of the Golden Feast, Julian turned from the hall, with but a single friend, and then left the country, that he might not see the happiness he had so generously given back to his friend.
The story will never go down." — Fielding.
A picture is a poem without words." — Horace.
Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers; art creates." — Opie.
"There are shades in all good pictures, but there are lights too, if we choose to contemplate them." — Dickens.
"He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner." — Sir Philip Sidney.
"In portraits, the grave and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact similitude of every feature." — Sir Joshua Reynolds.
"The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. Ah! the world, that cruel step-mother, beats the poor child the harder to make him shed more pearls." — Heinrich Heine.
"The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first; analysis afterward." — Beecher.