The corner of the sofa is very good.

Then here is my last,"-- unclosing a pretty sketch of a gentleman in small size, whole-length--"my last and my best--my brother, Mr.John Knightley .-- This did not want much of being finished, when I put it away in a pet, and vowed I would never take another likeness.

I could not help being provoked; for after all my pains, and when I had really made a very good likeness of it--( Mrs.Weston and I were quite agreed in thinking it _very_ like)--only too handsome--too flattering--but that was a fault on the right side"-- after all this, came poor dear Isabella's cold approbation of--"Yes, it was a little like--but to be sure it did not do him justice.

We had had a great deal of trouble in persuading him to sit at all.

It was made a great favour of; and altogether it was more than I could bear; and so I never would finish it, to have it apologised over as an unfavourable likeness, to every morning visitor in Brunswick Square;--and, as I said, I did then forswear ever drawing any body again.