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Whether influenced by this consideration, or whether she found it difficult to resist the desire which the painter had so delicately expressed, the Quakeress retired, escorted even to the threshold by Sir Joshua.
"Are you aware," he asked, returning to his model, "of my true purpose in sending this lady away?"
"In truth, no."
"Because she constrains you; because she casts a shadow upon your youth and gayety; in a word, because she prevents you from being yourself."
"Pray, how could you divine that?"
"My dear child, I have already deciphered three thousand human visages, and why should I not have learned to read the soul a little? The lady is your aunt?"
"Yes,--at least I have been told to call her so."
"And your parents?"
"And a genuine triumph it was! I was there."
"It was then that I was informed that I had an aunt, a sister of my mother, and I was forthwith placed in her care, in her guardianship."
"And she has rigorously acquitted herself of the mission which was confided to her."
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