'
'And is this pretty Lady of the Lake yours too?' said Anne; 'what a
pretty binding, with the Douglas arms on it!'
'Yes,' said Helen, 'that was Fanny's present; and Jane gave me the
pretty forget-me-not brooch I wore yesterday. You see I have plenty
of keep-sakes from the dear people.'
Anne then turned to the portfolio on the table. Helen shewed her, in
the first place, a rather stiff and formal looking forget-me-not,
painted by Fanny Staunton, and a carelessly sketched but neatly
shaded head drawn by Jane, both which specimens of art Anne tried
hard to admire for Helen's sake, but could not find it in her heart
to do so. Helen's own drawings, which were landscapes, gave more
promise of improvement, and displayed a good deal of taste and
freedom of hand, though some were by no means correct in the outline.
Helen pointed out several faults which she candidly acknowledged to
be wrong, and some others which she said 'Lizzie called blunders.'
'There,' said she, 'is the house at dear Dykelands; there is my
window with the Banksia roses clustering round it, so that I could
gather them as I stood in my room.
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