CHAPTER XVI.

On the study of expression from life--The care one must take in making studies from life--A _genre_ picture and Raphael's cartoon of the "Massacre of the Innocents"--I lose myself in London--The housemaid at Hotel Granara--The inconvenience of being ignorant and absent-minded--Ristori and Piccolomini in London--The cartoons of Raphael at Hampton Court--Fantasy runs away with me--A curious but just law--The result of fasting--The villa of Quarto and a prince's "early hour"--Again of Prince Demidoff, 301