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It was only when she had left the earl that Margaret noticed how kind and gracious he had been. He had not only bought the copy of the Guido, and commissioned another picture of her, but had walked by her side and smiled upon her, treating her almost as an equal, with a gentleness and deference indeed which seemed to indicate that he thought her a superior.
"I'll go into the woods and find a subject at once," she said to herself. "And it shall be my very best picture, or--I'll know the reason why. No wonder people are fond of lords and ladies, if they are all like the great Earl of Ferrers."