"Let us hope it will bring you only joy and triumph here," exclaimedhis neighbor, whom knew him to be an honest man and a true, ifover-obstinate and too vain of his own place in Urbino.

"0ur lord the duke!" shouted the people standing in the street;and Ser Benedetto strode out with stately tread to receive thehonor of his master's visit to his bottega.

Raffaelle slipped noiselessly up to his portlyher's side, and slidhis little arm into Sanzio's.

"You are not surely afraid of our good Guidobaldo!" said hisfather, with a laugh and some little surprise, for Raffaelle wasvery pale, and his lower lip trembled a little.