[Emma by Jane Austine]@TWC D-Link bookEmma CHAPTERVI
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How could you suppose me ignorant? Is not this room rich in specimens of your landscapes and flowers; and has not Mrs.Weston some inimitable figure-pieces in her drawing-room, at Randalls ?" Yes, good man!--thought Emma--but what has all that to do with taking likenesses? You know nothing of drawing.
Don't pretend to be in raptures about mine.
Keep your raptures for Harriet's face.
"Well, if you give me such kind encouragement, Mr.Elton, I believe I shall try what I can do. Harriet's features are very delicate, which makes a likeness difficult; and yet there is a peculiarity in the shape of the eye and the lines about the mouth which one ought to catch." "Exactly so--The shape of the eye and the lines about the mouth--I have not a doubt of your success.
Pray, pray attempt it.
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