Monday 2 June 2008

Raphael Madonna and Child with Book painting

Raphael Madonna and Child with Book painting
Cole The Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch) painting
Bastida El bano del caballo [The Horse's Bath] painting
Hopper Ground Swell painting
It was on his lips to exclaim: ``My poor child -- far more harm than anywhere else!'' Instead, he answered, in a voice that sounded in his ears like Mr. Letterblair's: ``New York society is a very small world compared with the one you've lived in. And it's ruled, in spite of appearances, by a few people with -- well, rather old-fashioned ideas.''
She said nothing, and he continued: ``Our ideas about
-109-marriage and divorce are particularly old-fashioned. Our legislation favours divorce -- our social customs don't.''
``Never?''
``Well -- not if the woman, however injured, however irreproachable, has appearances in the least degree against her, has exposed herself by any unconventional action to -- to offensive insinuations -- ''

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