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But the tones
returned to him as he pondered, filled with a deeper melody than the
usual winning speech of the Venetian; with the grace of the soft dialect
there was a rare, unexpected quality, as if thought had formed the
undertone. He had never heard such a voice in the Piazza--it was rare
even in the palazzo; it was the voice of some sweet and gracious woman
with a soul too large for the world; it held a suggestion of peace and
convent bells and even-songs of nuns.
Then, still more passionately, the desire overcame him to paint that
face for his Madonna; he would never give it up! Yet this maiden was
not one of whom he could ask the favor that he craved, nor to whom he
could offer any return.
He had come to San Maurizio to take a gondola from the traghetto, partly
that he might be free to wander without comment wherever his search
should lead, partly because he was always ready for a chat with the
people; their experiences interested him, and he himself belonged by his
artist life, as by his sympathies, to all classes.


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