I respect her property in it so far as that.

But so long as she accepts it as the significant truth it is, I am entirely incapable of regretting it.

I have painted her, with her permission, as I saw her, as she is.

If I had given her a, squint or a dimple, I could accuse myself; but I have not wronged her or gratified myself by one touch of misrepresentation." "I am to see it this afternoon," said Janet.

Unconsciously she was looking forward to finding some measure of justification for herself in the portrait; why, it would be difficult to say.
"Yes; I put it into its frame with my own hands yesterday.
I don't know when anything has given me so much pleasure.
And so far as Miss Bell is concerned," he went on, "it is an unpleasant thing to say, but one's acquaintance with her seems more and more to resolve itself into an opportunity for observation, and to be without significance other than that.