On the Bright Shore
at present, and it would be possible to paint whole days. Oh, yes! Who could help loving Italy! And do you know what I think sometimes?"
Panna Maria lowered her head, and, opening her lips somewhat, began to look at him carefully, as she always did when listening to him.
"I think that every man has two fatherlands: one his own, the nearer, and the other Italy. Only think, all culture, all art, all science, everything came from there. Let us take, for instance, the Renaissance.… Really, all are, if not the children, at least the grandchildren of Italy."
"True," answered Panna Maria.
"I do not know whether I mentioned that I have a studio in the Via Margutta in Rome, and that when the light becomes too sharp in this studio I am yearning for that one. Here it is—if we should all go to Rome—that would be perfect! Afterward we could go to Warsaw."
"There is no way to carry out that plan," answered Panna Maria, with a sad smile.
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