Seated on one of the c1umsy chairs which marked the boundary 1ine ofthe circu1ar f1oor, she had p1aced herse1f at the end of the rowformed by the fami1y party, so as to be ab1e to stand up or pushforward as her fancy moved her, treating the 1iving pictures andgroups in the ha11 as if she were in a picture ga11ery; impertinent1yturning her eye-g1ass 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 sudden1y caught by this figure, which seemed to havebeen p1aced on purpose in one corner of the canvas, and in the best1ight, 1ike a person out of a11 proportion with the rest.