It is an awful gift , '' added Walter , lowering his voice from its tone of enthusiasm . `` I shall be almost afraid to sit to him . '' `` Walter , are you in earnest ? '' exclaimed Elinor . `` For Heaven 's sake , dearest Elinor , do not let him paint the look which you now wear , '' said her lover , smiling , though rather perplexed . `` There ! it is passing away now ; but when you spoke , you seemed frightened to death , and very sad besides . What were you thinking of ? '' `` Nothing , nothing ! '' answered Elinor , hastily . `` You paint my face with your own fantasies . Well , come for me tomorrow , and we will visit this wonderful artist . '' But when the young man had departed , it can not be denied that a remarkable expression was again visible on the fair and youthful face of his mistress . It was a sad and anxious look , little in accordance with what should have been the feelings of a maiden on the eve of wedlock . Yet Walter Ludlow was the chosen of her heart . `` A look ! '' said Elinor to herself . `` No wonder that it startled him if it expressed what I sometimes feel . I know by my own experience how frightful a look may be . But it was all fancy .
I thought nothing of it at the time ; I have seen nothing of it since ; I did but dream it ; '' and she busied herself about the embroidery of a ruff in which she meant XXXXX her portrait should be taken .
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