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her to think on points which had not fallen in her way before."
"Exactly so; that is what principally strikes me. So much superadded decision of character! Skilful has been the hand."
"Great has been the pleasure, I am sure. I never met with a disposition more truly amiable."
"I have no doubt of it." And it was spoken with a sort of sighing animation, which had a vast deal of the lover. She was not less pleased another day with the manner in which he seconded a sudden wish of her's, to have Harriet's picture.
"Did you ever have your likeness taken, Harriet?" said she: "Did you ever sit for your picture?"
Harriet was on the point of leaving the room, and only stopt to say, with a very interesting naïveté,
"Oh! dear, no, never."
No sooner was she out of sight, than Emma exclaimed,
"What