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Young maidens , and all innocent persons , I doubt not , may find great delight and profit in looking at such holy pictures . But they are not for me . '' `` Your criticism , I fancy , has great moral depth , '' replied Kenyon ; `` and I see in it the reason why Hilda so highly appreciates Fra Angelico 's pictures . Well ; we will let all such matters pass for to-day , and stroll about this fine old city till noon . '' They wandered to and fro , accordingly , and lost themselves among the strange , precipitate passages , which , in Perugia , are called streets , Some of them are like caverns , being arched all over , and plunging down abruptly towards an unknown darkness ; which , when you have fathomed its depths , admits you to a daylight that you scarcely hoped to behold again . Here they met shabby men , and the careworn wives and mothers of the people , some of whom guided children in leading strings through those dim and antique thoroughfares , where a hundred generations had passed before the little feet of to-day began to tread them . Thence they climbed upward again , and came to the level plateau , on the summit of the hill , where are situated the grand piazza and the principal public edifices .