BABYLON
By Grant Allen
(Cecil Power)
Author Of 'Fhilistia', 'Strange Stories', Etc.
In Three Volumes
Vol. II.
With Twelve Illustrations By P. Macnab
London
Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly
1885
Original
Original
CONTENTS
CHAPTER XVI. COLIN'S DEPARTURE.
CHAPTER XVII. A LITTLE CLOUD LIKE A MAN'S HAND.
CHAPTER XVIII. HIRAM IN WONDERLAND.
CHAPTER XIX. UNWARRANTABLE INTRUSION.
CHAPTER XX. THE STRANDS CONVERGE.
CHAPTER XXI. COLIN SETTLES HIMSELF.
CHAPTER XXII. HIRAM GETS SETTLED.
CHAPTER XXV. MINNA BETTERS HERSELF.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE DEACON MAKES A GOOD END.
CHAPTER XXVIII. AN ART PATRON.
CHAPTER XV. A DOOR OPENS
Another year had passed, and Colin, now of full age, had tired of working for Cicolari. It was all very well, this moulding clay and carving replicas of afflicted widows; it was all very well, this modelling busts and statuettes and little classical compositions; it was all very well, this picking up stray hints in a half-amateur fashion from the grand torsos of the British Museum and a few scattered Thorwaldsens or antiques of the great country houses; but Colin Churchill felt in his heart of hearts that all that was not sculpture. He was growing in years now, and instead of learning he was really working. Still, he had quite made up his mind that some day or other he should look with his own eyes on the glories of the Vatican and the Villa Albani. Nay, he had even begun to take lessons in Italian from Cicolari—counting his chickens before they