Edward Hopper paintings

Edward Hopper paintings
Edgar Degas paintings
Emile Munier paintings
Edwin Lord Weeks paintings
``You know, when it comes to the point, your parents have always let you have your way ever since you were a little girl,'' he argued; and she had answered, with her clearest look: ``Yes; and that's what makes it so hard to refuse the very last thing they'll ever ask of me as a little girl.''
That was the old New York note; that was the kind of answer he would like always to be sure of his wife's making. If one had habitually breathed the New York air there were times when anything less crystalline seemed stifling.
The papers he had retired to read did not tell him much in fact; but they plunged him into an atmosphere in which he choked and spluttered. They consisted mainly of an exchange of letters between Count Olenski's solicitors and a French legal firm to whom the Countess had applied for the settlement of her financial situation. There was also a short letter from the Count to his wife: after reading it, Newland Archer rose, jammed the papers back into their envelope, and reentered Mr. Letterblair's office.
``Here are the letters, sir. If you wish, I'll see Madame Olenska,'' he said in a constrained voice.