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much blessed Catherine, and, I should say, far more than half-way to a saint, knowing, however, of her, and her work, only this picture. Of which I will only say in closing, as I said of the Vicar’s picture¹ in beginning, that it would be well if any of us could do such things nowadays;-and more especially, if our vicars and young ladies could.

¹[No. 21 in Room I.: see above, p. 150.]

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