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The portrait of Mrs. Tilney née Drummond that hung in her daughter’s room depicted that lady in same accoutrement as at her wedding, with a double length of pearls shining bright as the teeth presented in a happy smile.
Eleanor had never known her mother so carefree and yet preferred the picture to the many others which haunted her memory. Indeed, she experienced a taste of her predecessor’s felicity on her own nuptial day, receiving a rare expression of tenderness from the general at his recognizing the same necklace grace his daughter.