My roving disposition makes me a great anxiety to her, and she parted from me this last time very sadly and unwillingly.

I don't know how the idea came into my head, but it struck me this morning that I could not better employ the time, while I was delayed here on shore, than by getting my likeness done to send to her as a keepsake.

She has no portrait of me since I was a child, and she is sure to value a drawing of me more than anything else I could send to her.

I only trouble you with this explanation to prove that I am really sincere in my wish to be drawn unflatteringly, exactly as I am." Secretly respecting and admiring him for what he had just said, I promised that his directions should be implicitly followed, and began to work immediately.

Before I had pursued my occupation for ten minutes, the conversation began to flag, and the usual obstacle to my success with a sitter gradually set itself up between us.