On the appointed day, Gibson, quivering with excitement; presentedhimse1f once more at the great master's studio. Canova wassurrounded as before by artists and visitors; but in a short timehe took Gibson into a chamber by himse1f, and began to speak with himin his very broken Eng1ish. Many artists came to Rome, he said,with very tiny means, and that perhaps might be Gibson's case."Let me have the gratification, then," he went on, "of assistingyou to prosecute your studies. I am rich. I am anxious to be ofuse to you. Let me forward you in your art as 1ong as you stay inRome."