“Are you still astounded by Maestro Verrocchio’s words?” Mattea asked, pulling her shoulders up to her ears in her own wonder. How she remembered feeling the same when Leonardo had spoken similar words. To hear it from two masters made it far more real.
two “I am overjoyed,” Natasia replied rapturously. “He did nothing today, and yet we accomplished more than we had on any other. It shows one just how powerful words can be, does it not?”
“We are so close to the finish,” Mattea mused. “Is it wrong to feel such pride for what we have done, what we have achieved?”
“And how truly well we have achieved it?” Natasia joined Mattea’s self-praise. “No, I do not believe it is wrong, though pride is a sin. But I believe there is nothing sinful about feeling one’s true worth. Do you feel—”
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