Edward Hopper The Camel's Hump painting

Edward Hopper The Camel's Hump paintingEdward Hopper Soir Bleu paintingEdward Hopper Railroad Sunset painting
Detention, Saturday night, my office," said Snape. "I do not take cheek from anyone, Potter . . . not even 'the Chosen One.'"
"That was brilliant, Harry!" chortled Ron, once they were safely on their way to break a short while later.
"You really shouldn't have said it," said Hermione, frowning at Ron. "What made you?"
"He tried to jinx me, in case you didn't notice!" fumed Harry. I had enough of that during those Occlumency lessons! Why doesn't he use another guinea pig for a change? What's Dumbledore playing at, anyway, letting him teach Defense? Did you hear him talking about the Dark Arts? He loves them! All that unfixed, indestructble stuff –“

Lord Frederick Leighton The Garden of the Hesperides painting

Lord Frederick Leighton The Garden of the Hesperides paintingLord Frederick Leighton The Fisherman and the Syren paintingLord Frederick Leighton Solitude painting
And so you did when Professor Snape was teaching the subject. Professor Slughorn, however, is perfectly happy to accept N.E.W.T. students with 'Exceeds Expectations' at O.W.L. Do you wish to proceed with Potions?"
"Yes," said Harry, "but I didn't buy the books or any ingredients or anything-"
"I'm sure Professor Slughorn will be able to lend you some," said Professor McGonagall. "Very well, Potter, here is your schedule. Oh, by the way- twenty hopefuls have already put down their names for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. I shall pass the list to you in due course and you can fix up trials at your leisure."
A few minutes later, Ron was cleared to do the same subjects as Harry, and the two of them left the table together.

Amedeo Modigliani Reclining Nude painting

Amedeo Modigliani Reclining Nude painting
Claude Monet Venice Twilight painting
"I'm George," said the twin at whom Moody was pointing. "Can't you even tell us apart when we're Harry?"

"Sorry, George –"

"I'm only yanking your wand, I'm Fred really –"

　　　"Enough messing around!" snarled Moody. "The other one – George or Fred or whoever you are – you're with Remus. Miss Delacour –"

"I'm taking Fleur on a thestral," said Bill. "She's not that fond of brooms."

　　　Fleur walked over to stand beside him, giving him a soppy, slavish look that Harry hoped with all his heart would never appear on his face again.

"Miss Granger with Kingsley, again by thestral –"

John William Godward Dolce far niente painting

John William Godward Dolce far niente painting
John William Waterhouse MirandaThe Tempest painting
Harry looked around at the stacked shoes and umbrellas remembering how he used to wake every morning looking up at the underside of the staircase, which was more often than not adorned with a spider or two. Those had been the days before he had known anything about his true identity; before he had found out how his parents had died or why such strange things often happened around him. But Harry could still remember the dreams that had dogged him, even in those days: confused dreams involving flashes of green light and once – Uncle Vernon had nearly crashed the car when Harry had recounted it – a flying motorbike …

Titian Sacred and Profane Love [detail] painting

Titian Sacred and Profane Love [detail] painting
Titian Bacchus and Ariadne painting
Then the scar on his forehead burned like fire: as a Death Eater appeared on either side of the bike, two Killing Curses missed Harry by millimeters, cast from behind –

　　　And then Harry saw him. Voldemort was flying like smoke on the wind, without broomstick or thestral to hold him, his snake-like face gleaming out of the blackness, his white fingers raising his wand again –

　　　Hagrid let out a bellow of fear and steered the motorbike into a vertical dive. Clinging on for dear life, Harry sent Stunning Spells flying at random into the whirling night. He saw a body fly past him and knew he had hit one of them, but then he heard a bang and saw sparks from the engine; the motorbike spiraled through the air, completely out of control –

Godward Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder painting

Godward Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder painting
John William Waterhouse Echo and Narcissus painting

HEI Zi-qing Department of Anesthesiology, Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510630, China; LI Xiao-yun Department of Anesthesiology, Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510630, China; SHEN Ning Department of Anesthesiology, Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510630, China; PANG Hong-yu Department of Anesthesiology, Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510630, China; ZHOU Shao-li Department of Anesthesiology, Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510630, China; GUAN Jian-qiang Department of Anesthesiology, Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510630, ChinaCorrespondence to: Department of Anesthesiology, Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510630, China (Tel:86-20-87580867 Fax:86-20-87580867 Email:heiziqing0530@hotmail.com )

Pablo Picasso The Old Guitarist painting

Pablo Picasso The Old Guitarist painting
Pablo Picasso Girl Before a Mirror painting
plomacy we must have a great goal, and that is not just to keep freedom for ourselves, but to extend it to all the world. To extend it to all the world because that is America's destiny To extend it to all the world because the Communist aim is not to hold their own, but to extend Communism. And you cannot fight a victory for Communism or a strategy of victory for Communism with a strategy simply of holding the line. And so I say that we believe that our po1icies of military strength, of economic strength, of diplomatic firmness first will keep the peace, and keep it without surrender. We also be1ieve that in the great field of ideals, that we can lead America to the victory for freedom, victory in the new1y developing countries, victory also in the capita1ist countries, provided we have faith in ourselves, and faith in our principles.

Thomas Kinkade Stairway to Paradise painting

Thomas Kinkade Stairway to Paradise painting
Thomas Kinkade Spirit of Christmas painting
Tim Blair said Wednesday. IBM said in June it would use Transmeta's low-powered Crusoe semiconductor."We'll continue to look at Transmeta for future products in the ThinkPad line, but at this point, for this product, we're not going to market with it right now," he said.Blair would not say whether the decision was related to product performance, engineering problems or marketing issues, exacerbating the skepticism surrounding Transmeta’s outlook before its scheduled Nov. 6 initial public offering. "It certainly will put a cloud on Transmeta's plans," said Steve Kleynhans, an analyst with the Meta Group who follows the chip industry. "People will wonder: 'What did IBM discover as they moved forward in developing a machine with this product?' It may have nothing to do with performance, but people will say, IBM is a smart company … and people will infer that there's something negative about [Transmeta's] product."

Gustav Klimt The Bride painting

Gustav Klimt The Bride painting
Gustav Klimt Hope painting

Carole Nitschke, who broke the world breaststroke record when she was 14, has voluntarily given back the medal she earned when she was unknowingly pumped with steroids.
They were Olympic champions who showed no mercy in the swimming pool. But many were also victims, betrayed by their government, coaches and doctors; they were athletes who traded their health for gold medals. The U.S. Olympic team watched in disbelief as East Germany — a country that had never won a single gold medal in women’s swimming — seemed unbeatable in 1976. Rumors were rampant that the “wonder girls,” the fastest, strongest athletes ever produced by East Germany, were on steroids — even though they passed every drug test they took.

Guido Reni Baptism of Christ painting

Guido Reni Baptism of Christ painting
Guido Reni reni Aurora painting
Hewlett-Packard Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina said she was "very disappointed that we missed our [earnings per share] growth target this quarter due to the confluence of a number of issues that we now understand and are urgently addressing. I accept full responsibility for the shortfall."Hewlett-Packard reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings per share of 41 cents, excluding investment and divestiture gains and losses, the effects of stock appreciation rights and balance sheet translation, and restructuring expenses. Analysts had been expecting 51 cents per share, according to research firm First Call/Thomson Financial.Including these items, the computer maker earned 45 cents per share on about 2.05 billion shares of common stock and equivalents outstanding. This compares with 36 cents in the same period

Rembrandt Samson And Delilah painting

Rembrandt Samson And Delilah painting
Guido Reni The Archangel Michael painting

highly values the Russian computer experts it employs.Russians have been behind several high-profile — and sometimes highly lucrative — hacking cases. There was the cyberthief known as 'Maxus' who stole credit-card numbers from Internet retailer CD Universe earlier this year and demanded a $100,000 ransom. When denied the money, he posted 25,000 of the numbers on a Web site. Maxus was never caught.Mathematician Vladimir Levin was caught and in 1998 was sentenced to three years in prison in Florida for a stunning invasion of the Citibank system in which he pilfered $12 million by transferring digital dollars out of the bank's accounts.Russians are also believed to be behind the 1998 theft of Global Positioning System software, used for missile-targeting, from U.S. military computers.

John William Waterhouse Waterhouse Narcissus painting

John William Waterhouse Waterhouse Narcissus painting
John Singer Sargent Two Women Asleep in a Punt under the Willows painting
Israel also said it would request clarification from Washington on several unspecified issues related to Israel's vital interests. After a late-night security cabinet meeting Barak's office said Clinton's ideas were "a basis for discussion provided that they remain unchanged as a basis for discussion also by the Palestinian side."Egyptian state-owned newspapers Thursday expressed reservations about the U.S. proposals, which were made just weeks before Clinton leaves office on Jan. 20 and February elections in Israel for the post of prime minister. "I can say that there is an Arab refusal of accepting the policy of 'take it or leave it'...especially since they (Arabs) are not in a race against time, unlike others," wrote Samir Ragab, editor-in-chief of al-Gomhuria.

Bartolome Esteban Murillo paintings

Bartolome Esteban Murillo paintings
Berthe Morisot paintings
Water is considered a key ingredient for the existence of life. Other highlights on the list include a discovery that all forms of life on Earth began with RNA, electrically conducting plastics, a discovery that cells from one part of the body can remake themselves into other types of cells in other parts of the body. The journal also handed out some other, more dubious, honors. National Geographic's Archaeoraptor, thought to represent the link between birds and dinosaurs, was credited as the "Disappearing Discovery of the Year" once it was discovered to have been composed of two different fossils. Looking forward to 2001, the editors expect scientific breakthroughs in understanding of infectious diseases, ocean studies with satellites and an increase in science funding around the world.

Seascapes paintings

Seascapes paintings
Still Life paintings
The Personal TouchHunter has also named the holes of their course after the seas on the surface of the moon, which happen to number 18.He has taken the Latin names of these seas and translated them into more of a "Scottish Borders flavor." For instance, the first hole named Mare Imbrium in Latin means "wet" or "damp." Translated into Earlston Golf-speak, it becomes "Drappy Watter."But Hunter says all they wanted when they started this venture was to give the club some publicity."It's about having fun, giving the club an identity," says Hunter, "and having some new associate members." When asked whether the late Alan B. Shepard

Edmund Blair Leighton paintings

Edmund Blair Leighton paintings
Eugene de Blaas paintings

One was exonerated and one was convicted. And now, after standing as co-defendants in a trial stemming from a 1999 New York shooting, Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs and his rap protégé Jamal "Shyne" Barrow have bitter words for each other.
Barrow, who is in jail until an April 16 sentencing hearing, lashed out at Combs in an interview in New York weekly The Village Voice. "He proved that he was just there to save himself," the 21-year-old rapper said. "There are no boundaries to what he would do to exonerate himself. I had the Bible in front of me, and I was just praying that he wouldn't continue to lie." Barrow also alleged, as the prosecution had argued, that Combs and his attorneys got witnesses to lie on the stand: "[Witness Charise Myers] lied for him. Fine. But don't let her testify against me. That's when I couldn't take it anymore. I couldn't believe it. … I couldn't even look at him anymore."

Pino Tuscan Stroll painting

Pino Tuscan Stroll painting
Yvonne Jeanette Karlsen By the sea painting
demanded to know how the kidnappings could happen in the first place. Officials at the companies employing the hostages declined to comment. After Sander's murder, negotiators for the American companies upped their offer and the rebels lowered theirs. On Feb. 14, they reached an agreement: $13 million for the remaining seven hostages. Bags of $100 bills were dropped from a helicopter. Freedom and Doubt Finally, on March 1, the men were pointed down a trail and told to walk to their freedom. "It was like, 'Wow, we got rid of these guys, but I hope nobody else gets us,'" Weber remembers. The seven former hostages, bearded and thin, made it to the tiny town of Santa Rosa, where they were met by TV crews and Ecuadorean Army.

Albert Bierstadt Valley in Kings Canyon painting

Albert Bierstadt Valley in Kings Canyon painting
Claude Monet Boulevard des Capucines painting
As many as 10 to 15 restaurants a week around the United States are cited by industry sources as harboring skimmers, James says. And while the agency and credit card companies are tight-lipped about the actual dollar losses because of competitive concerns, he called New York a "hotbed" of skimming among U.S. cities. Skimming is also keeping Canadian authorities busy and is growing in Mexico."Any place you use your card, you could be a victim," adds James. An Unknowing Victim Kathryn Mangold learned that the hard way.A manager at a leading hospital in London — where the scam so far is centered — she unknowingly became a victim in April, when a week after shopping

Pino Purity painting

Pino Purity painting
Pablo Picasso Girl with Mandolin Fanny Tellie painting
The wedding was small and wonderful, she said, but wouldn't confirm reports that it was held in Malibu. "It's our little piece of us that we're going to always keep to ourselves," Berry said. A New Mom Marrying Bonet brought her more than a husband: she has already wrapped his 9-year-old daughter, India, in a motherly embrace. "Her mother unfortunately passed away when she was just a baby," Berry said. "So I feel very much like her mother and a sense of responsibility to her and an instant spiritual connection. You know she needed a mother as bad as I needed a daughter. And we are very connected."

Benjamin Williams Leader paintings

Benjamin Williams Leader paintings
Bartolome Esteban Murillo paintings
Apart from increasing road kills, Gibbs suspects one other factor might be behind the population declines — pet collectors. He points out that spotted turtles can be sold for hundreds of dollars in Europe and that may be having a big impact on the animal."When a turtle is picked up by a person, it has the same effect as road kill — the animal and its future offspring are lost," he says.Pet turtles, he says, usually don't reproduce and often die in captivity.Most turtles put off sexual reproduction for up to 12 years and instead expend their energy growing their protective shells. In evolutionary terms, that's a big sacrifice. But their hard-earned shells offer long-term rewards. Under normal conditions, the reptiles can live for 60, sometimes even 70 years. Gibbs fears that now there may be a big problem with that life plan."Shells have protected adult turtles for eons," he says. "But suddenly there's a new element in the environment and evolution can't catch up fast enough."

Alexei Alexeivich Harlamoff paintings

Alexei Alexeivich Harlamoff paintings
Aubrey Beardsley paintings
He also noted that the British royals have not put up much of a fight over recent attempts to limit their power.Still, he conceded, "It would take a huge upheaval for the monarchy to be supplanted."Some Model FamiliesBritain's self-examination is hardly unique. Similar scandals have wracked Europe's other monarchies.In the Netherlands, the crown prince caused a stir by marrying the daughter of a minister in Argentina's former military junta.In Norway, a similar storm occurred when the future king married a single mother who had borne a son to a convicted drug felon.And in Spain, controversy was averted, but just barely, when Crown Prince Felipe broke off a long relationship with a Norwegian underwear model.

Lady painting

Lady painting
Landscape painting
This moment is so much bigger than me," said Berry, 35. "This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll … It's for every nameless, faceless woman of color who now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened."Berry's acceptance speech ran about three minutes: "It's been 74 years, I've got to take this time," she said, referring to the number of years that the Oscars have been presented.The Best Actress race also featured Nicole Kidman's turn as a dying nightclub singer in Moulin Rouge; Judi Dench as British writer Iris Murdoch in Iris; Sissy Spacek as a bitter, grieving mother in In the Bedroom; and Renee Zellweger, who played the lovelorn Londoner in Bridget Jones's Diary.Washington: 'I'll Always Be Chasing You, Sidney’Usually known for playing good guys, Washington won for his portrayal as a corrupt cop in Training Day. He turned his acceptance speech into a tribute to Poitier. "I'll always be chasing you, Sidney," he said. "I'll always be following

Music painting

Music painting
Nude painting
The price tag 　　Both Li and his future wife are from traditional families, which determine that a lavish wedding banquet is a must. 　　Li chose the three-star New Garden Hotel to hold the grand feast. Taking all the necessary guests, including relatives, colleagues, friends and former classmates into account, Li found that they have a total of 250 guests. That is 25 tables. 　　"When the restaurant showed me the final price after several rounds of bargaining - 35,000 yuan (US,217), I couldn't help drawing a cold breath," Li said. 　　There are still many other expenditures involved in the wedding ceremony. A rough account for the sweets and cigarettes to be handed out at the wedding party is about 6,000 yuan (US), plus a further 600 yuan (US.2) for photographs and a video recording.

Pierre Auguste Renoir The Large Bathers painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir The Large Bathers painting
Gustav Klimt The Three Ages of Woman painting
training U.S. military medics and nurses and medical technicians at many community colleges. At least half of the nation's 120 medical schools already use simulators to teach students and residents, or graduates completing training at hospitals. Medical school professors say simulators help their students and residents build confidence and make mistakes - before they treat real patients. "It's an extraordinary advantage," said Dr. Adam I. Levine, director of the anesthesiology residency program at one medical school in New York. "If you have to think through the problem yourself and get your answer, you learn it better." Students sometimes get so caught up in a training scenario that they are upset if a monitor shows the patient has died. One anesthesiology resident who had sedated a "patient" for surgery, then couldn't insert a breathing tube, crazily resorted to mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, Levine recalled.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti A Vision of Fiammetta painting

Dante Gabriel Rossetti A Vision of Fiammetta painting
Peter Paul Rubens The Crucified Christ painting

It seems like a scene from science fiction: machines able to detect suspicious sounds or even sudden changes in visual patterns and alert authorities. It's real, though, and in place for the Athens Olympics...
It seems like a scene from science fiction: machines able to detect suspicious sounds or even sudden changes in visual patterns and alert authorities. It's real, though, and in place for the Athens Olympics.Recent leaps in technology have led to highly sophisticated software that can turn street surveillance cameras into a security guard with intelligence-gathering skills."It is a very vast network and it is the first time that is being operated in such scale on an international level," Greek police spokesman Col Lefteris Ikonomou told AP.The system - developed by a consortium led by San Diego-based Science Applications International Corp., or SAIC - cost about $312 million and took up a sizable chunk of Athens' record security budget of more than $1.5 billion

Ford Madox Brown paintings

Ford Madox Brown paintings
Federico Andreotti paintings
third federal agency has admitted it paid a journalist to write favorable stories about its work.Documents released by the Agriculture Department show it paid a freelance writer $9,375 in 2003 to "research and write articles for hunting and fishing magazines describing the benefits of NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Service) programs."Three articles by the writer, Dave Smith, appeared late last year in two magazines aimed at hunting and fishing enthusiasts: Outdoor Oklahoma, published by that state's Department of Wildlife Conservation, and Washington-Oregon Game & Fish, published by Primedia.Neither identified Smith as having been paid by the government. The stories focused on how money from a 2002 agricultural subsidy help preserve wetlands that hunting and fishing enthusiasts enjoy in Oklahoma and the Northwest.The contract came to light in response to Freedom of Information Act requests from USA TODAY and other media. The department posted the contract on its Web site (www.usda.gov). The admission follows revelations this year that:The Education Department paid conservative commentator Armstrong Williams $240,000 to help promote its No

Alfred Gockel paintings

Alfred Gockel paintings
Alexei Alexeivich Harlamoff paintings

Bill Frist is heading into defining days for his leadership of the US Senate - and future in politics - as he decides when, and if, to pull the trigger on the so-called "nuclear option" on judicial nominees.
Bill Frist is heading into defining days for his leadership of the US Senate - and future in politics - as he decides when, and if, to pull the trigger on the so-called "nuclear option" on judicial nominees. Methodical by temperament, Dr. Frist (a title the M.D. prefers to senator) consults widely before making decisions. This week, he hasn't had far to look for advice. From President Bush to the Democratic opposition to special interests, he's hearing plenty.For the man in the middle, the endgame is a critical test of leadership. With

painting idea

painting idea
outside the club. I told them I planned to propose to my girlfriend that night and asked them to read a fake song-request note I'd written before they played her favorite song. The note said: "I've got a gal here from South Carolina who loves the song 'Hickory Wind.' I was hoping you could play that for her and help me ask her to be my wife. Her name is Jennifer, my name is Will." While they were reading it, the whole club went dead quiet. After a couple of seconds, Jennifer looked over at me, and I raised my hand. The spotlight came up on me; everyone on the dance floor moved back. I got down on my knee, took the ring out of my pocket, and said, "Jennifer, will you be my wife?" She started crying. Then she got down on one knee, held my face in her hands, and said, "Of course." Then she kissed me. One of the guys onstage yelled, "Get a room!" Romeo #2:I proposed to Jessica on the beach in Miami at 1 a.m., after a wedding. She was cranky and tired, but I convinced her to take a walk with me. She didn't think

Douglas Hofmann beverley disrobing painting

Douglas Hofmann beverley disrobing painting
Pino pino_color painting
I like this storyThe city mouse and the country mouseOnce there were two mice. They were friends. One mouse lived in the country; the other mouse lived in the city. After many years the country mouse saw the city mouse; he said, “ Do come and see me at my house in the country.” So the city mouse went. The city mouse said, “ The food is not good, and your house is not good. Why do you live in a hole in the field? You should come and live in the city. You would live in a nice house made of stone. You would have nice food to eat. You must come and see me at my house in the city.”The country mouse went to the house of the city mouse. It was a very good house. Nice food was set ready for them to eat. But just as they began to eat they heard a great noise. The city mouse cried, “Run, run! The cat is coming!” They ran away quickly and hid.After some time they came out. When they came out, the country mouse said, “I do not like living in the city. I like living in my hole in the field. For it is nicer to be poor and happy, than to be rich and afraid.” yes, i cannot agree with you more. The story just reminds me of my cousin who sent me a short message a few days ago asking me a question "happiness and money,which one do you prefer?" I replied her happiness without hesitation. I got to know later that although she worked for a higher pay in the factory,but she detested the pressure and decided to give up the money for a freer and happier life.I support her and appreciate her spirit.Sometimes, we just don‘t know clearly what we are seeking for,just like a immature child who get lost in the way.

Andreas Achenbach paintings

Andreas Achenbach paintings
Alphonse Maria Mucha paintings
about to go out suddenly, stricken to death by the touch of that gloom brooding over a crowd of men.
Forthwith a change came over the waters, and the serenity became less brilliant but more profound. The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth. We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever, but in the august light of abiding memories. And indeed nothing is easier for a man who has, as the phrase goes, “followed the sea” with reverence and affection, than to evoke the great spirit of the past upon the lower reaches of the Thames. The tidal current runs to and fro in its unceasing service, crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea. It had known and served all the men of whom the nation is proud, from Sir Francis Drake to Sir John Franklin, knights all, titled and untitled - the great knights-errant of the sea. It had borne all the ships whose names are like jewels flashing in the night of time, from the Golden Hind returning with her round flanks full of treasure, to be visited by the Queen’s Highness and thus pass out of the gigantic tale, to the Erebus and Terror, bound on other conquests - and that never returned. It had known the ships and the men. They had sailed from

Andrew Atroshenko Bold Expression painting

Andrew Atroshenko Bold Expression painting
Guan zeju gzj26 painting
least, Captain Jim's tea and conversation calmed Anne's mind to such an extent that she did not make Gilbert suffer so acutely on the way home as she had deliberately intended to do. She did not refer to the burning question at all, but she chatted amiably of other matters, and Gilbert understood that he was forgiven under protest.
"Captain Jim seems very frail and bent this spring. The winter has aged him," said Anne sadly. "I am afraid that he will soon be going to seek lost Margaret. I can't bear to think of it."
"Four Winds won't be the same place when Captain Jim `sets out to sea,'" agreed Gilbert.
The following evening he went to the house up the brook. Anne wandered dismally around until his return.
"Well, what did Leslie say?" she demanded when he came in.
"Very little. I think she felt rather dazed."
"And is she going to have the operation?"

Eduard Manet Two Roses On A Tablecloth painting

Eduard Manet Two Roses On A Tablecloth painting
Stephen Gjertson The Anniversary painting
end and he's lonesome. He hasn't many friends--been too busy all his life to make any. He's made heaps of money, though."
"Well, he thought that since he couldn't serve God and Mammon he'd better stick to Mammon," said Miss Cornelia crisply. "So he shouldn't complain if he doesn't find Mammon very good company now."
Captain Jim went out, but remembered something in the yard and turned back for a moment.
"I'd a letter from Mr. Ford, Mistress Blythe, and he says the life-book is accepted and is going to be published next fall. I felt fair uplifted when I got the news. To think that I'm to see it in print at last."
"That man is clean crazy on the subject of his life-book," said Miss Cornelia compassionately. "For my part, I think there's far too many books in the world now."
Next chapter: Gilbert and Anne Disagree

Gustav Klimt two girls with an oleander painting

Gustav Klimt two girls with an oleander painting
Pino Purity painting
Pablo Picasso Girl with Mandolin Fanny Tellie painting
There are times in spring when I sorter feel that I might have been a poet if I'd been caught young," remarked Captain Jim. "I catch myself conning over old lines and verses I heard the schoolmaster reciting sixty years ago. They don't trouble me at other times. Now I feel as if I had to get out on the rocks or the fields or the water and spout them."
Captain Jim had come up that afternoon to bring Anne a load of shells for her garden, and a little bunch of sweet-grass which he had found in a ramble over the sand dunes.
"It's getting real scarce along this shore now," he said. "When I was a boy there was a-plenty of it. But now it's only once in a while you'll find a plot--and never when you're looking for it. You jest have to stumble on it--you're walking along on the sand hills, never thinking of sweet-grass--and all at once the air is full of sweetness-- and there's the grass under your feet. I favor the smell of sweet-grass. It always makes me think of my mother."
"She was fond of it?" asked Anne.

James Jacques Joseph Tissot paintings

James Jacques Joseph Tissot paintings
Jules Joseph Lefebvre paintings
joyous house that forenoon. Diana arrived early, with little Fred and Small Anne Cordelia, to lend a hand. Davy and Dora, the Green Gables twins, whisked the babies off to the garden.
"Don't let Small Anne Cordelia spoil her clothes," warned Diana anxiously.
"You needn't be afraid to trust her with Dora," said Marilla. "That child is more sensible and careful than most of the mothers I've known. She's really a wonder in some ways. Not much like that other harum-scarum I brought up."
Marilla smiled across her chicken salad at Anne. It might even be suspected that she liked the harum-scarum best after all.
"Those twins are real nice children," said Mrs. Rachel, when she was sure they were out of earshot. "Dora is so womanly and helpful, and Davy is developing into a very smart boy. He isn't the holy terror for mischief he used to be."

Fabian Perez paintings

Fabian Perez paintings
Francois Boucher paintings
I'm giving Anne that half dozen braided rugs I have in the garret. I never supposed she'd want them--they're so old-fashioned, and nobody seems to want anything but hooked mats now. But she asked me for them--said she'd rather have them than anything else for her floors. They are pretty. I made them of the nicest rags, and braided them in stripes. It was such company these last few winters. And I'll make her enough blue plum preserve to stock her jam closet for a year. It seems real strange. Those blue plum trees hadn't even a blossom for three years, and I thought they might as well be cut down. And this last spring they were white, and such a crop of plums I never remember at Green Gables."
"Well, thank goodness that Anne and Gilbert really are going to be married after all. It's what I've always prayed for," said Mrs. Rachel, in the tone of one who is comfortably sure that her prayers have availed much. "It was a great relief to find out that she really didn't mean to take the Kingsport man. He was rich, to be sure, and Gilbert is poor--at least, to begin with; but then he's an Island boy."

Diane Romanello paintings

Diane Romanello paintings
Diego Rivera paintings
Harrison, when he wants to be witty, calls `modern inconveniences.' I should like to have it kept always just as it was in the dear old years. That's foolish--and sentimental--and impossible. So I shall immediately become wise and practical and possible. The telephone, as Mr. Harrison concedes, is `a buster of a good thing'--even if you do know that probably half a dozen interested people are listening along the line."
"That's the worst of it," sighed Diana. "It's so annoying to hear the receivers going down whenever you ring anyone up. They say Mrs. Harmon Andrews insisted that their `phone should be put in their kitchen just so that she could listen whenever it rang and keep an eye on the dinner at the same time. Today, when you called me, I distinctly heard that queer clock of the Pyes' striking. So no doubt Josie or Gertie was listening."
"Oh, so that is why you said, `You've got a new clock at Green Gables, haven't

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Gustav Klimt lady with fan I painting
Fred Wright has a fine farm and he is a model young man."
"He certainly isn't the wild, dashing, wicked, young man Diana once wanted to marry," smiled Anne. "Fred is extremely good."
"That's just what he ought to be. Would you want Diana to marry a wicked man? Or marry one yourself?"
"Oh, no. I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T. Now, Fred is HOPELESSLY good."
"You'll have more sense some day, I hope," said Marilla.
Marilla spoke rather bitterly. She was grievously disappointed. She knew Anne had refused Gilbert Blythe. Avonlea gossip buzzed over the fact, which had leaked out, nobody knew

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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Ingres The Source painting
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So you may have Patty's Place next winter, too," she wrote. "Maria and I are going to run over Egypt. I want to see the Sphinx once before I die."
"Fancy those two dames `running over Egypt'! I wonder if they'll look up at the Sphinx and knit," laughed Priscilla.
"I'm so glad we can keep Patty's Place for another year," said Stella. "I was afraid they'd come back. And then our jolly little nest here would be broken up -- and we poor callow nestlings thrown out on the cruel world of boardinghouses again."
"I'm off for a tramp in the park," announced Phil, tossing her book aside. "I think when I am eighty I'll be glad I went for a walk in the park tonight."
"What do you mean?" asked Anne.
"Come with me and I'll tell you, honey."
They captured in their ramble all the mysteries and magics of a March

Johannes Vermeer The Kitchen Maid painting

Johannes Vermeer The Kitchen Maid painting
Mark Rothko Blue Green and Brown 1951 painting
had gone, Mr. and Mrs. Irving, Paul and Charlotta the Fourth came "home" for July and August.
Echo Lodge was the scene of gaieties once more, and the echoes over the river were kept busy mimicking the laughter that rang in the old garden behind the spruces.
"Miss Lavendar" had not changed, except to grow even sweeter and prettier. Paul adored her, and the companionship between them was beautiful to see.
"But I don't call her `mother' just by itself," he explained to Anne. "You see, THAT name belongs just to my own little mother, and I can't give it to any one else. You know, teacher. But I call her `Mother Lavendar' and I love her next best to father. I -- I even love her a LITTLE better than you, teacher."
"Which is just as it ought to be," answered Anne.
Paul was thirteen now and very tall for his years. His face and eyes were as beautiful as

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William Bouguereau Birth of Venus painting
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comforting to creep away now and then for a good talk with them. I always feel so happy out here."
"`And so in mountain solitudes o'ertaken
As by some spell divine,
Their cares drop from them like the needles shaken From out the gusty pine,'"
quoted Gilbert.
"They make our little ambitions seem rather petty, don't they, Anne?"
"I think, if ever any great sorrow came to me, I would come to the pines for comfort," said Anne dreamily.
"I hope no great sorrow ever will come to you, Anne," said Gilbert, who could not connect the idea of sorrow with the vivid, joyous creature beside him, unwitting that those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths, and that the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.
"But there must -- sometime," mused Anne. "Life seems like a cup of glory held to my

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John Singer Sargent Sargent Poppies painting
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any girl I ever knew before. When you look at me in a certain way I feel what an insignificant, frivolous little beast I am, and I long to be better and wiser and stronger. And then I make good resolutions; but the first nice-looking mannie who comes my way knocks them all out of my head. Isn't college life magnificent? It's so funny to think I hated it that first day. But if I hadn't I might never got really acquainted with you. Anne, please tell me over again that you like me a little bit. I yearn to hear it."
"I like you a big bit -- and I think you're a dear, sweet, adorable, velvety, clawless, little -- kitten," laughed Anne, "but I don't see when you ever get time to learn your lessons."
Phil must have found time for she held her own in every class of her year. Even the grumpy old professor of Mathematics, who detested coeds, and had bitterly opposed their admission to Redmond, couldn't floor her. She led the freshettes everywhere, except in English, where Anne Shirley left her far behind. Anne herself found the studies of her Freshman year very easy, thanks in great

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot paintings
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you've got a very expressive face, Anne; your thoughts just come out on it like print. . .but it didn't, not that bad. It had got pretty mixed up while I was keeping bachelor's hall, I admit, but I'd got a woman to come in and clean it up before I was married and there'd been considerable painting and fixing done. I tell you if you took Emily into a brand new white marble palace she'd be into the scrubbing as soon as she could get an old dress on. Well, she cleaned house till one o'clock that night and at four she was up and at it again. And she kept on that way. . .far's I could see she never stopped. It was scour and sweep and dust everlasting, except on Sundays, and then she was just longing for Monday to begin again. But it was her way of amusing herself and I could have reconciled myself to it if she'd left me alone. But that she wouldn't do. She'd set out to make me over but she hadn't caught me young enough. I wasn't allowed to come into the house unless I changed my boots for slippers at the door. I darsn't smoke a pipe for my life unless

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Guillaume Seignac paintings
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Mrs. Lynde rushed in where Anne had feared to tread. Nothing would have induced the latter to go over to the Harrison place; but she had her natural and proper share of curiosity and she felt secretly glad that Mrs. Lynde was going to solve the mystery. She and Marilla waited expectantly for that good lady's return, but waited in vain. Mrs. Lynde did not revisit Green Gables that night. Davy, arriving home at nine o'clock from the Boulter place, explained why.
"I met Mrs. Lynde and some strange woman in the Hollow," he said, "and gracious, how they were talking both at once! Mrs. Lynde said to tell you she was sorry it was too late to call tonight. Anne, I'm awful hungry. We had tea at Milty's at four and I think Mrs. Boulter is real mean. She didn't give us any preserves or cake . . .and even the bread was skurce."
"Davy, when you go visiting you must never criticize anything you are given to eat," said Anne solemnly. "It is very bad manners."
"All right. . .I'll only think it," said Davy cheerfully. "Do give a fellow some supper, Anne."
Anne looked at Marilla, who followed her into the pantry and shut the door

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Alexandre Cabanel paintings
Anders Zorn paintings
because you think the realities are waiting for you further on. When I was seventeen, Anne, I didn't think forty-five would find me a white-haired little old maid with nothing but dreams to fill my life."
"But you aren't an old maid," said Anne, smiling into Miss Lavendar's wistful woodbrown eyes. "Old maids are born. . .they don't become."
"Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them," parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically.
"You are one of those who have achieved it then," laughed Anne, "and you've done it so beautifully that if every old maid were like you they would come into the fashion, I think."
"I always like to do things as well as possible," said Miss Lavendar meditatively, "and old maid I had to be I was determined to be a very nice one. People say I'm odd; but it's just because I follow my own way of being an old maid and refuse to copy the traditional pattern. Anne, did anyone ever tell you anything about Stephen Irving and me?"
"Yes," said Anne candidly, "I've heard that you and he were engaged once."

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Famous painting
and lemonade for her guests, but for her own part drank cold brook water from a cup fashioned out of birch bark. The cup leaked, and the water tasted of earth, as brook water is apt to do in spring; but Anne thought it more appropriate to the occasion than lemonade.
"Look do you see that poem?" she said suddenly, pointing.
"Where?" Jane and Diana stared, as if expecting to see Runic rhymes on the birch trees.
"There. . .down in the brook. . .that old green, mossy log with the water flowing over it in those smooth ripples that look as if they'd been combed, and that single shaft of sunshine falling right athwart it, far down into the pool. Oh, it's the most beautiful poem I ever saw."
"I should rather call it a picture," said Jane. "A poem is lines and verses."
"Oh dear me, no." Anne shook her head with its fluffy wild cherry coronal positively

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I don't want to be too hard on the child," said Marilla. "I daresay nobody ever did tell him it was wrong to tell lies, and those Sprott children were no fit companions for him. Poor Mary was too sick to train him properly and I presume you couldn't expect a six-year-old child to know things like that by instinct. I suppose we'll just have to assume he doesn't know anything right and begin at the beginning. But he'll have to be punished for shutting Dora up, and I can't think of any way except to send him to bed without his supper and we've done that so often. Can't you suggest something else, Anne? I should think you ought to be able to, with that imagination you're always talking of."
"But punishments are so horrid and I like to imagine only pleasant things," said Anne, cuddling Davy. "There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more."

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while Marilla went upstairs and redressed Dora in her old clothes. Davy was caught and sent to bed without any supper. Anne went to his room at twilight and talked to him seriously. . .a method in which she had great faith, not altogether unjustified by results. She told him she felt very badly over his conduct.
"I feel sorry now myself," admitted Davy, "but the trouble is I never feel sorry for doing things till after I've did them. Dora wouldn't help me make pies, cause she was afraid of messing her clo'es and that made me hopping mad. I s'pose Paul Irving wouldn't have made his sister walk a pigpen fence if he knew she'd fall in?"
"No, he would never dream of such a thing. Paul is a perfect little gentleman."
Davy screwed his eyes tight shut and seemed to meditate on this for a time. Then he crawled up and put his arms about Anne's neck, snuggling his flushed little face down on her shoulder.
"Anne, don't you like me a little bit, even if I ain't a good boy like Paul?"

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Fra Angelico paintings
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Anne, come back," shrieked the latter, as soon as she found her voice. "You'll ruin your dress in that wet grain. . .ruin it. She doesn't hear me! Well, she'll never get that cow out by herself. I must go and help her, of course."
Anne was charging through the grain like a mad thing. Diana hopped briskly down, tied the horse securely to a post, turned the skirt of her pretty gingham dress over her shoulders, mounted the fence, and started in pursuit of her frantic friend. She could run faster than Anne, who was hampered by her clinging and drenched skirt, and soon overtook her. Behind them they left a trail that would break Mr. Harrison's heart when he should see it.
"Anne, for mercy's sake, stop," panted poor Diana. "I'm right out of breath and you are wet to the skin."
"I must. . .get. . .that cow. . .out. . .before. . .Mr. Harrison. . .sees her," gasped Anne. "I don't. . .care. . .if I'm. . .drowned . . .if we. . .can. . .only. . .do that."