Famous painting

Famous painting
the first part of Robinson Crusoe, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written:
`Now I saw, though too late, the Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost, and before we judge rightly of our own Strength to go through with it.'
Only yesterday, I opened my Robinson Crusoe at that place. Only this morning (May twenty-first, Eighteen hundred and fifty), came my lady's nephew, Mr. Franklin Blake, and held a short conversation with me, as follows:--
`Betteredge,' says Mr. Franklin, `I have been to the lawyer's about some family matters; and, among other things, we have been talking of the loss of the Indian Diamond, in my aunt's house in Yorkshire, two years since. Mr. Bruff thinks as I think, that the whole story ought, in the interests of truth, to be placed on record in writing -- and the sooner the better.'
Not perceiving his drift yet, and thinking it always desirable for the sake of peace