`` 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 that her portrait should be taken . The painter of whom they had been speaking was not one of those native artists who at a later period than this borrowed their colors from the Indians and manufactured their pencils of the furs of wild beasts . Perhaps , if he could have revoked his life and prearranged his destiny , he might have chosen to belong to that school without a master in the hope of being at least original , since there were no works of art to imitate nor rules to follow . But he had been born and educated in Europe .
People said XXXXX he had studied the grandeur or beauty of conception and every touch of the master-hand in all the most famous pictures in cabinets and galleries and on the walls of churches till there was nothing more for his powerful mind to learn .
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