She remembered, oh, so
well one of her father's sermons that had vividly impressed her in
the dear old days at Dunwich Cathedral. It was preached upon the
text, "Come ye out and be ye separate."
From Milan they went on direct to Florence. Alan had decided to
take rooms for the summer at Perugia, and there to see Herminia
safely through her maternal troubles. He loved Perugia, he said;
it was cool and high-perched; and then, too, it was such a capital
place for sketching. Besides, he was anxious to complete his
studies of the early Umbrian painters. But they must have just one
week at Florence together before they went up among the hills.
Florence was the place for a beginner to find out what Italian art
was aiming at. You got it there in its full logical development--
every phase, step by step, in organic unity; while elsewhere you
saw but stages and jumps and results, interrupted here and there by
disturbing lacunae. So at Florence they stopped for a week en
route, and Herminia first learnt what Florentine art proposed to
itself.
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