i) Select the passage that has a more admiring tone. 4) I can appreciate now, even more than I did then, the extreme simplicity and modesty that so well matched her grand, classic beauty, She was the good fairy at a Christmas nee Festival, to which all the American girls and boys in Florence were invited. Because she lacked artistic sympathies, he had despised her, or at best underestimated her. And once to think of it)-he had nearly loved her. __ with what astonishing rapidity their intimacy had grown drooped, and come to sudden death