mountain landscape painting

mountain landscape painting
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of Mrs. Dashwood's attention; for she was, at that time, in such affliction as rendered her careless of surrounding objects. She saw only that he was quiet and unobtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation. She was first called to observe and approve him farther, by a reflection which Elinor chanced one day to make on the difference between him and his sister. It was a contrast which recommended him most forcibly to her mother. 　　 "It is enough," said she; "to say that he is unlike Fanny is enough. It implies everything amiable. I love him already."
oil painting　　 "I think you will like him," said Elinor, "when you know more of him." 　　 "Like him!" replied her mother with a smile. "I feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love." 　　 "You may esteem him." 　　 "I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem and love." 　　 Mrs. Dashwood now took pains to get acquainted with him. Her manners were attaching, and soon banished his reserve. She speedily comprehended all his merits; the persuasion of his regard for Elinor perhaps assisted her penetration; but she really felt assured of his worth: and even that quietness of manner, which militated against all her established ideas of what a young man's address ought to be, was no longer uninteresting, when she knew his heart to be warm and his temper affectionate.