Did you sit at them long each day ?" "I had nothing else to do, because it was the vacation, and I sat at them from morning till noon, and from noon till night: the length of the midsummer days favoured my inclination to apply." "And you felt self-satisfied with the result of your ardent labours ?" "Far from it.

I was tormented by the contrast between my idea and my handiwork: in each case I had imagined something which I was quite powerless to realise." "Not quite: you have secured the shadow of your thought; but no more, probably.

You had not enough of the artist's skill and science to give it full being: yet the drawings are, for a school-girl, peculiar.

As to the thoughts, they are elfish.

These eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream.