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Kate sits for a portrait by her landlady two days after her brother's departure. Miss La Creevy wanted to paint her because of her beauty.
The landlady discusses the difficulties in painting miniature portraits. Many of her customers complain that she either makes them too serious or smirking. Miss La Creevy claims that sitters are usually one or the other, so you can't help but paint them that way. Serious expressions are reserved for people who have professional vocations and sometimes actors. Smirking expressions are given to ladies and gentlemen. Many of the officers that Miss La Creevy paints are not ac
