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GERTRUDE ENGLISH, with her hands clasped behind her, stood looking over Allestree's shoulder and watching him as he worked, in a desultory way, at some details of Margaret's now nearly finished portrait. It was good work, but it lacked the inspiration of his picture of Rose; it had been, indeed, well nigh impossible to convey the mockery, the uninterpreted mystery of Margaret's glance.
"You haven't made the face half sad enough," was Gerty's candid criticism, "and her eyes -- do you suppose any one else ever had quite such eyes?"