The Assignation

EXCERPT
'Non ha l'ottimo artista alcun concetto
Che tin marmo solo in se non circonscriva.'"
It has been, or should be remarked, that, in the manner of the true gentleman, we are always aware of a difference from the bearing of the vulgar, without being at once precisely able to determine in what such difference consists. Allowing the remark to have applied in its full force to the outward demeanor of my acquaintance, I felt it, on that eventful morning, still more fully applicable to his moral temperament and character.