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meant, they asked one by one, with pauses between, “Is it I?” and another, “Is it I?” and this so quietly and timidly that the one who was lying on Christ’s breast never stirred from his place; and Peter, afraid to speak, signed to him to ask who it was. One further circumstance, showing that this was the real state of their minds, we shall find Giotto take cognizance of in the next fresco.

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