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In the window of an antique shop there once stood a Greek vase which meant more to Giulio, a poor sculptor, who lived nearby, than anything else in the world. On the vase was the figure of ... See full summary

In the window of an antique shop there once stood a Greek vase which meant more to Giulio, a poor sculptor, who lived nearby, than anything else in the world. On the vase was the figure of a woman skillfully executed. Giulio was in love with the vase and in love with the woman upon it. One day an unusually stringent state of finances forced Giulio to take a little statue on which he had devoted many hours of careful labor to the antique shop in the hope of selling it. Inside the shop he paused to pay his daily tribute of admiration to the vase. As he tamed away, the end of the statue which he carried hit the vase and knocked it to the floor, where it shattered into a thousand pieces. The indignant clerk, discovering that Giulio was penniless, insisted on taking the statue in return for the broken vase. Giulio took the broken pieces and went sadly back to his attic. On one little fragment of the vase the face of the woman was still preserved in all its former beauty. Giulio gazed on it...