"I think it really looks like your daughter." "Oh, thank you, thank you; I hardly dare," murmured the lady, with a deprecating gesture.
"It will serve as a kind of amends for the liberty I have taken," Longueville added; and he began to remove the drawing from its paper block.
"It makes it worse for you to give it to us," said the young girl.
"Oh, my dear, I am sure it 's lovely!" exclaimed her mother.

"It 's wonderfully like you." "I think that also makes it worse!" Longueville was at last nettled.

The young lady's perversity was perhaps not exactly malignant; but it was certainly ungracious.

She seemed to desire to present herself as a beautiful tormentress.
"How does it make it worse ?" he asked, with a frown.
He believed she was clever, and she was certainly ready.

Now, however, she reflected a moment before answering.
"That you should give us your sketch," she said at last.
"It was to your mother I offered it," Longueville observed.
But this observation, the fruit of his irritation, appeared to have no effect upon the young girl.
"Is n't it what painters call a study ?" she went on.