As you will do it, it will indeed, to use your own words, be an exquisite possession." "But I am afraid, Mr.Elton, Harriet will not like to sit.

She thinks so little of her own beauty.

Did not you observe her manner of answering me?
How completely it meant, 'why should my picture be drawn ?'" "Oh! yes, I observed it, I assure you.

It was not lost on me.

But still I cannot imagine she would not be persuaded." Harriet was soon back again, and the proposal almost immediately made; and she had no scruples which could stand many minutes against the earnest pressing of both the others.