I could not
go on living with Will,--though," she added, a sudden compunction
seizing her, "I was fond of him in a way, poor fellow."
And the door closed.
XI
THE GREAT ASSAY OF ART.
Macbeth; iv.--3.
The inner history of the effigies which in Boston do duty as statues
would be most interesting reading, amusing or depressing as one felt
obliged to take it. To know what causes led to the production and then
to the erection of these monstrosities could hardly fail to be
instructive, although the knowledge might be rather dreary.
The subject has been too much discussed to make it easy to touch it,
but all this examination has by no means resulted in general
enlightenment, as was sufficiently evident at the meeting of the
committee in charge of the new statue of _America_ about to be erected
in a properly select Back Bay location. The committee consisted of
Stewart Hubbard, Alfred Irons, and Peter Calvin, three names which were
seldom long absent from the columns of the leading Boston daily
newspapers. Mr. Irons had been strongly objected to by both his
associates, neither of whom felt quite disposed to assume even such
equality as might seem to follow from joint membership of the
committee. That gentleman had, however, sufficient influence at City
Hall to secure appointment, a whim which had seized him to pose as a
patron of art being his obvious motive; and neither Mr.
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