She looks out at us from a dark and smoky painting. A young woman with intelligent eyes. The robes of office around her she is exposed at the chest in a way that would not be seen today. What thoughts went through her mind then? A generation after Napoleon. The cusp on the industrial revolution. Through a glass darkly indeed.
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Very difficult to see her. It's a dark picture. Just thought you would like to know Mr. Morton.
Thanks -- in fact that's part of the issue -- we see her faintly and only faintly. Just like the past, it is only a glimmer of what was... .
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