Seated on one of the clumsy chairs which marked the boundary line ofthe circular floor, she had placed herself at the end of the rowformed by the family party, so as to be able to stand up or pushforward as her fancy moved her, treating the living pictures andgroups in the hall as if she were in a picture gallery; impertinentlyturning her eye-glass on persons not two yards away, and making herremarks as though she were criticising or praising a study of a head,a painting of genre. Her eyes, after wandering over the vast movingpicture, were suddenly caught by this figure, which seemed to havebeen placed on purpose in one corner of the canvas, and in the bestlight, like a person out of all proportion with the rest.