The Marble Faun Chapter XXVII - Myths

In which the young Count leads his friend the sculptor through ancient and enchanting woods, where they linger by a moss-covered fountain haunted by a melancholy marble nymph, whose legend tells of a sorrowful love and a dimly remembered guilt. The tale and the Count’s strange gift for communing with woodland creatures reveal a tender loss of innocence and a grievous estrangement from nature that moves his companion deeply.