Thomas Kinkade Evening Glow painting

Thomas Kinkade Evening Glow paintingThomas Kinkade CHRISTMAS MEMORIES paintingThomas Kinkade Boston
whispering the incantation instead of saying it aloud. Typically, ten minutes into the lesson Hermione managed to repel Neville's muttered Jelly-Legs Jinx without uttering a single word, a feat that would surely have earned her twenty points for Gryffindor from any reasonable teacher, thought Harry bitterly, but which Snape ignored. He swept between them as they practiced, looking just as much like an overgrown bat as ever, lingering to watch Harry and Ron struggling with the task.
Ron, who was supposed to be jinxing Harry, was purple in the face, his lips tightly compressed to save himself from the temptation of muttering the incantation. Harry had his wand raised, waiting on tenterhooks to repel a jinx that seemed unlikely ever to come.
"Pathetic, Weasley," said Snape, after a while. "Here -- let me show you-"

Rembrandt The Elevation Of The Cross painting

Rembrandt The Elevation Of The Cross paintingRembrandt David and Uriah paintingRembrandt Christ On The Cross painting
grandson she's got, rather than the one she thinks she ought to have - particularly after what happened at the Ministry."
Neville turned very pink and blinked confusedly; Professor McGonagall had never paid him a compliment before.
"I'm sorry, Longbottom, but I cannot let you into my N.E.W.T. class. I see that you have an 'Exceeds Expectations' in Charm however - why not try for a N.E.W.T. in Charms?"
"My grandmother thinks Charms is a soft option," mumbled Neville.
"Take Charms," said Professor McGonagall, "and I shall drop Augusta a line reminding her that just because she failed her Charms O.W.L., the subject is not necessarily worthless." Smiling slightly at the look of delighted incredulity on Neville's face, Professor McGonagall tapped a blank schedule with the tip of her wand and handed it, now carrying details of his new classes, to Neville.

Pierre Auguste Renoir The Umbrellas painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir The Umbrellas painting
Pierre Auguste Renoir Sleeping Girl painting
We think the Death Eaters will expect you to be on a broom," said Moody, who seemed to guess how Harry was feeling. "Snape's had plenty of time to tell them everything about you he's never mentioned before, so if we do run into any Death Eaters, we're betting they'll choose one of the Potters who looks at Home on a broomstick. All right then," he went on, tying up the sack with the fake Potters' clothes in it and leading

the way back to the door, "I make it three minutes until we're supposed to leave. No point locking the back door, it won't keep the Death Eaters out when they come looking. Come on …"

　　　Harry hurried to gather his rucksack, Firebolt, and Hedwig's cage and followed the group to the dark back

Leonardo da Vinci Head of Christ painting

Leonardo da Vinci Head of Christ painting
Leonardo da Vinci da Vinci Self Portrait painting
near the foot of the stairs. The light was fading rapidly, the hall full of shadows in the evening light. It felt most strange to stand here in the silence and know that he was about to leave the house for the last time. Long ago, when he had been left alone while the Dursleys went out to enjoy themselves, the hours of solitude had been a rare treat. Pausing only to sneak something tasty from the fridge, he had rushed upstairs to play on Dudley's computer, or put on the television and flicked through the channels to his heart's content. It gave him an odd, empty feeling remembering those times; it was like remembering a younger brother whom he had lost.

　　　"Don't you want to take a last look at the place?" he asked Hedwig, who was still sulking with her head under her wing. "We'll never be here again.

Caravaggio Taking of Christ painting

Caravaggio Taking of Christ painting
Caravaggio The Incredulity of Saint Thomas painting
As the pain from Harry's scar forced his eyes shut, his wand acted of its own accord. He felt it drag his hand around like some great magnet, saw a spurt of golden fire through his half-closed eyelids, heard a crack and a scream of fury. The remaining Death Eater yelled; Voldemort screamed, "NO!" Somehow, Harry found his nose an inch from the dragon-fire button. He punched it with his wand-free hand and the bike shot more flames into the air, hurtling straight toward the ground.

　　　"Hagrid!" Harry called, holding on to the bike for dear life. "Hagrid – Accio Hagrid!"

　　　The motorbike sped up, sucked towards the earth. Face level with the handlebars, Harry could see nothing but distant lights

Edward Hopper Nighthawks painting

Edward Hopper Nighthawks painting
Frederic Edwin Church Sunset painting
Cystatin C (n=39) at following 5 intervals: before operation (T0), 20 minutes before anhepatic phase (T1), 25 minutes in anhepatic (T2), 60 minutes after reperfusion (T3) and at the end of operation(T4). Urinary β2 MG (n=60) and NAG (n=60) were also examined at following 3 intervals: before operation (T0), 60 minutes after reperfusion (T3) and at the end of operation (T4). According to the Rimola A criteria of ARF in 24 hours after operation, all the patients were divided into two groups: ARF group and non-ARF group. The data were statistically analyzed to evaluate the feasibiliy of regarding these factors as prognostic factors for early ARF after liver transplantation in patients with normal SCr and BUN before operation.Results Ten of sixty cases showed ARF(16.7%). The Logistic regression analysis showed that the levels

Johannes Vermeer girl with the pearl earring painting

Johannes Vermeer girl with the pearl earring painting
Gustav Klimt The Three Ages of Woman painting
1958, and I've accurately described the Administration policy and I support it wholeheartedly So that really isn't an issue in this campaign. It isn't an issue if Mr. Nixon, who now says that he also supports the Eisenhower policy nor is the question that all Americans want peace and security an issue in this campaign.The question is: are we moving in the direction of peace and security? Is our relative strength growing? Is, as Mr. Nixon said, our prestige at an all time high, as he said a week ago, and that of the Communist at an all time low? I don't believe that it is. I don't believe that our relative strength is increasing. And I say that not as a Democratic standard-bearer, but as a citizen of the United States who is concerned about the United States. I look at Cuba, ninety miles off the coast of the United States. In 1957, I was in Havana, I talked to the American ambassador there, he said that he was the second most

Pierre Auguste Renoir Two Sisters (On the Terrace) painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir Two Sisters (On the Terrace) painting
Pierre Auguste Renoir The Umbrellas painting
Anwar Wadat Assassinated at Cairo Military ReviewCAIRO, October 7----Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, a modern-day pharaoh who attempted to lead the Arab world toward a permanent Mideast peace with Israel, was assassinated yesterday by a band of soldiers who attacked a military parade reviewing stand with automatic rifles and hand grenades.…Seven other persons were killed and 22 were wounded, including four Americans.Sadat’s death further jeopardized hopes of a lasting Mideast peace that has been stalemated for more than two years. Nevertheless, Sadat’s handpicked

Claude Monet Sunset painting

Claude Monet Sunset painting
Claude Monet La Japonaise painting
Baraquio grew up with nine siblings in Hawaii, plays keyboard for an all-girl rock group called High Tide and did a hula dance for the talent competition. Among the other contestants in the 80th annual pageant that ended Saturday was Miss Iowa Theresa Uchytil, 24, who learned how to twirl the baton despite being born with only one hand, and Jenkins, 24, a Louisiana law student who got involved in literacy volunteer work because her mother didn’t know how to read. For the first time, the panel of celebrity judges also included the winner of an Instant Celebrity Judge sweepstakes. Melanie Brock, a 46-year-old marketing executive from Lansing, Mich., was chosen from among 70,000 entries, and joined Olympic gold medalist Lenny Krayzelburg on the judging panel. Baraquio succeeds Miss America 2000 Heather French, 25, of Maysville, Ky., the

John Singer Sargent El Jaleo painting

John Singer Sargent El Jaleo painting
Rembrandt Susanna and the Elders painting
figures on PS2 preorders were available, but such retailers as Circuit City and Best Buy have made it clear that they expect to sell out of the consoles within minutes of opening their doors Thursday. A key test will be whether Sony can meet its production goal of 1 million-2 million units a month. High-tech sales research firm PC Data reported this month that rival console maker Sega has doubled weekly sales of its Dreamcast console during the weeks preceding PS2's launch. Sega said it has been stockpiling its 128-bit console in expectation of a scaling back by Sony. "PS2 will be huge, but if initial results are any indication, Sega has positioned itself perfectly if speculation of PS2 shortages are realized," PC Data analyst Matt Gravett said.

John William Waterhouse The Lady of Shalott painting

John William Waterhouse The Lady of Shalott painting
Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper painting
Russia's reputation as home to some of the world's most gifted and devious hackers was underscored last month when Microsoft Corp. disclosed that passwords used to access its coveted source code had been sent from the company network to an e-mail address in St. Petersburg.It is by no means clear whether a Russian was behind the break-in — that e-mail account could have been managed remotely. But that doesn't stop Russian hackers — "khakeri," or "vzlomshchiki (house-breakers)" — from puffing out their chests at such exploits. In a recent poll on a hacker-oriented Web site, 82 percent said Russia had the world’s best hackers; only 5 percent said Americans were better.But the bravado is laced with frustration.

Pierre Auguste Renoir La Moulin de la Galette painting

Lord Frederick Leighton The Painter's Honeymoon painting
Pierre Auguste Renoir La Moulin de la Galette painting
e Palestinians have no level of certainty about the potential results of the negotiations that would make them think of calming down the Intifada (uprising)," Egypt's main daily al-Ahram said. A Saudi newspaper reported Wednesday that the kingdom and Egypt had advised Arafat against signing a peace deal before the new U.S. administration takes office.
Traders frantically signal trades in the NASDAQ 100 stock index futures pit. This has been the worst-ever year for the tech-heavy index.
NEW YORK, Dec. 26 — Investors' hopes for a happy end to Wall Street's most dismal year in a decade are vanishing in a seemingly unending string of stock selloffs. With an interest rate cut now ruled out until January, the market isn't likely to find a catalyst for a sustainable rally until early 2001, many experts believe.

childe hassam paintings

childe hassam paintings
Cheri Blum paintings

Shares of Apple Computer Inc. fell to their lowest levels in more than two years on Wednesday, a day after it warned that slow holiday sales would lead to its first quarterly operating loss in three years.
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Computer Inc. (NasdaqNM:AAPL), which said in December it aimed to move a glut of unsold machines, has cut prices of higher end computers by up to $1,000, the company's Web site showed on Tuesday. A retailer said the cuts, which come ahead of next week's Macworld show where Apple usually announces new products, went as high as $1,100 on Macintosh servers and were double or more the value of rebates valid in December but which have been ended. Apple said on its Web site that buyers could "save up to $1,000" with Apple's "New year's resolution".

Floral paintings

Floral paintings
Garden painting
The selling follows a Monday rally that came on hopes that the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates this week -- before its regular meeting March 20.　　But no inter-meeting cut came by Tuesday. And there's no guarantee that a surprise cut will occur at all, even after a key measure of consumer confidence slipped to its lowest level in four-and-a-half years.　　"The confidence index was down, but it didn't plummet," Art Cashin, directors of trading at PaineWebber, told CNNfn's The Money Gang.　　The Nasdaq fell 100.68 points, or 4.3 percent, to 2,207.79. The losses handed the Nasdaq its lowest close since Dec. 31, 1998, when the index closed at 2,192.69.　　For the Nasdaq, the slide has been dramatic. After rising 86 percent in 1999, the index fell 39.2 percent in 2000 and is now down another 10.6 percent this year.

Fabian Perez paintings

Fabian Perez paintings
Francois Boucher paintings

With over one billion viewers globally, the Academy Awards draws the biggest viewing figures of any single televised event, making it more than a multimillion-dollar cash bonanza for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The 73rd Annual Academy Awards, which take place tomorrow night, will no doubt throw up a few surprises, although Russell Crowe seems likely to scoop Best Actor for his role in Gladiator.
As Tinseltown gowns up for another night of posing and saccharine speeches, Alastair McKay looks back at the Academy Awards’ habit of leaving truly great performances cruelly unrewarded 'More than merit, the Oscars are about marketing. The prizes sell the idea that Tinseltown is still in pretty good shape.’In a recent interview with the New York Times, to coincide with his Oscar nominations for Traffic and Erin Brockovich, Steven Soderbergh was asked to talk a reporter through one of his favourite films. The idea, similar to the

Albert Bierstadt Yosemite Valley painting

Albert Bierstadt Yosemite Valley painting
John William Godward The Delphic Oracle painting
Weber says he and his fellow captives were keenly aware of the danger they faced:. "There was always a gun pointed at us — at your head, at your back, at something," says Weber. Clinging to HopeThe hostages stayed alert and tried to keep fit, even though they were losing weight quickly. Their meager diet consisted of a little rice and occasional sardines or fish heads. Sometimes, when the bandits shot a monkey or large rodent, the hostages were offered the skin and fat. Weber had a notebook and wrote in it every day. At first he took notes on his location and drew maps to assist an escape or rescue efforts

Guillaume Seignac Cupid Disarmed painting

Guillaume Seignac Cupid Disarmed painting
Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Smile painting
given small, illicit, electronic devices known as skimmers that capture all of the credit or debit card’s details in the few seconds that it takes to swipe the card through the machine.When unsuspecting customers go to pay their bill, their card is first swiped through the legitimate credit card machine, but then, secretly, it is also swiped through the smaller skimmer machine.The gofers then pass the gadgets onto counterfeiters, who pay them the equivalent of around $150 for their part in the crime. Once the details have been given to counterfeiters, they download the information onto a computer and make up a fake card.The "cloned" card is embossed with the details of the victim's credit card and passed on to gang members who, police say, may sell it for between $400 and $700, depending on the perceived credit limit.

Pierre Auguste Renoir The Boating Party Lunch I painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir The Boating Party Lunch I painting
Francisco de Goya Nude Maja painting
This was a very interesting mission," said Frank Goddio, a Frenchman archaeologist who headed the team. "We discovered so many things. This site is amazingly rich."Using magnetic wave technology, the divers found the basin of what used to be the city's harbor and electronically surveyed and charted it, finding palaces and temples. Next to the harbor, they found 10 antique shipwrecks.A coliseum, houses, temples and several other artifacts lay amazingly intact at the bottom of the sea, the archaeologists said. They said they found the statues on the site of what used to be the Great Temple of Herakleion.The scientists may have also helped solve the mystery of how one of the most thriving cities of ancient Egypt — now in the bay of Abu Qir about 3.5 miles off the coast of the modern Egyptian resort of Alexandria — seemed to simply disappear.

Winslow Homer paintings

Winslow Homer paintings
William Bouguereau paintings

Turtles aren't known for their speed and that's partly why scientists believe populations of the reptile are in serious decline.
For millions of years, the reptiles have been nearly invincible by growing hard shells that protect them wherever they go. When a predator approaches they can quickly retreat under their cover, safe from harm. Only a select few predators like the coyote and wolf are known to be able to crack through an adult turtle's armor.Then came the automobile.About one-third of U.S. turtle species are reaching dangerously low numbers — and in nearly every state of the nation at least one species of turtle is listed as threatened or endangered. Scientists believe the declining numbers may be caused by increasing traffic near their homelands."For the fleet of foot, like deer or rabbits, traffic is not as much of an issue," says James Gibbs, a conservation biologist at State University of New York in Syracuse. "But these ground-hugging animals are much

Charles Chaplin paintings

Charles Chaplin paintings
Douglas Hofmann paintings
Khouri added that it was "not an automatic thing that monarchies have to disappear." The power of the monarchs in the Middle East is based upon their ability to affect things like education and quality of life, he said.If they could not satisfy their constituents, they would not be in power, he said. "There's a kind of built-in accountability."Going Either WayIronically, monarchies are even gaining popularity in areas of the world that had previously known little but strife.Bulgaria's King Simeon II lost his throne in 1946, but returned to power last year after an adoring public elected him prime minister.Yugoslavia showed an interest in its exiled royal family following years of separatist violence and the downfall of strongman Slobodan Milosevic, now on trial before an international war crimes tribunal.

field painting

field painting
Floral paintings

April 18 — The Pirelli building, struck today by a small airplane, is Milan's tallest building, and is one of the world's highest concrete skyscrapers.Built in the late 1950s, the office building stands 32 stories tall, or about 417 feet, according to the Web site, SkyScraperPage.com. Other sources say the building is 30 stories tall.By comparison, Paris' Eiffel Tower is about twice as tall, and New York's Empire State Building is 102 stories, or 1,455 feet tall.Nevertheless, with its location near the city's central train station and its height relative to the buildings around it, the Pirelli building is considered a landmark and symbol of the commercial city of Milan.The building was designed by the architect Gio Ponti, along with one of Italy's most important 20th-century structural engineers, Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979), known for his use of reinforced concrete.Pirelli, the tire and cable company, does not operate out of the Pirelli building. However, the office building houses the government administration of the Lombardy region of Italy.

Knight painting

Knight painting
Lady painting
were prepared to spend around 60,000 yuan on the wedding. About 5-8 per cent of people would spend more than that, and this percentage is steadily rising. 　　"A trend for higher standards and more expensive wedding ceremonies has emerged," Yu said, and his remarks won immediate agreement from Tony Wang from the Four Seasons Hotel. 　　"Just take a look at our hotel's thriving wedding banquet business," Wang said. 　　The five-star hotel's so-called super luxurious wedding banquet of 588 yuan (US) per person plus 15 per cent surcharge is fully booked, despite the fact that at least 10 tables must be reserved. 　　The same thriving business can be seen at the Hotel Nikko Pudong Shanghai, whose "wedding" business is expected to show a 60 per cent increase over the same period last year.

Guillaume Seignac Jeune femme denudee sur canape painting

Guillaume Seignac Jeune femme denudee sur canape painting
Diego Rivera Portrait of Natasha Zakolkowa Gelman painting
The price also includes grooming of the dead pet, a coffin and a personalised tombstone, the report added. "We are bringing pet owners a peaceful and garden-like environment where they can visit their pets at a serene resting place," cemetery director Gabriel Ho said. Ho's animal-psychic sister Elaine will also be on hand so owners can keep in touch with their pets beyond the grave, the report add
The days of new doctors practicing on real patients may be numbered. Today, many doctors in training are making their first diagnoses - and their first mistakes - on plastic, wires and computer circuits ...
The days of new doctors practicing on real patients may be numbered. Today, many doctors in training are making their first diagnoses - and their first mistakes - on plastic, wires and computer circuits rather than flesh and blood. ed.

William Bouguereau The Rapture of Psyche painting

William Bouguereau The Rapture of Psyche painting
Guillaume Seignac The Wave painting

Even if you have no chance to join this year's Olympic games in Greece, you can train like a world-class athlete with pocket-sized electronics that deliver a pumping music beat while...
Even if you have no chance to join this year's Olympic games in Greece, you can train like a world-class athlete with pocket-sized electronics that deliver a pumping music beat while keeping track of your rising pulse rate. These gadgets, many of which pull double duty as a radio, music player or regular timepiece, can act as part-time coach and motivator shouting out numbers on the distance you have run or cycled, and indicating that your breaststroke needs work. For decades, joggers have carried portable radios to avoid boredom. Now, between choruses of a digital recording of Paul McCartney's "Band on the Run," the MP3RUN, developed by Nike Inc. and Philips Electronics, can report the distance run, and the pace via the wearer's headphones.

Edwin Lord Weeks paintings

Edwin Lord Weeks paintings
Frida Kahlo paintings
It's time we move forward," Thomas said, promising legislation next month. "The president went out, he finished phase one. We're now in phase two." Bush recently completed two months of speeches around the country calling for an overhaul, and the Senate Finance Committee began hearings last month. Thursday's session marked the opening of a drive by House Republicans to produce a bill there.
The world's 1.3 billion smokers could eventually have a powerful new way to kick the habit — a vaccine against nicotine.
The world's 1.3 billion smokers could eventually have a powerful new way to kick the habit — a vaccine against nicotine. Nearly 60% of smokers who achieved high levels of antibodies against nicotine after receiving the vaccine stopped smoking for at least six months, according to a study presented Saturday at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Orlando, Fla.

famous painting

famous painting
“I am starting to freak out,” she says, plucking at the paper napkin swaddling her glass. “The ideas are there but now we have to do the real thing.” This is why she is wearing the plastic bead necklace, which, it turns out, was a gift for good luck; the hat is from last summer’s collection; and the sandals are from her current autumn/winter line, a revisionist version of 1950s couture that’s responsible for the current spate of “black is back” headlines in every glossy magazine. major international trend after major international trend in the 27 years since she joined the family business. “I come here all the time!” says Prada of the bar, perching herself on one of the benches in the window. “It is right next to my flat, which is in the building where I grew up, and my mother is still there, on the first floor, and my brother is on the third floor, and it is right

Gustav Klimt lady with fan painting

Gustav Klimt lady with fan painting
Douglas Hofmann midnight blue painting
you, but also help you better connect with your audience. 2. Breathe: When people get nervous, their breathing tends to get shallow, which means they’re taking in less oxygen and functioning less effectively. Taking at least one deep-cleaning breath—breathing in through the nose to fill your lungs and exhaling out through your mouth—will calm your nerves and keep you in the present. 3. Carry yourself with presence: Much of presence is, quite simply, bearing (how you carry yourself ) . Those with presence are very secure about themselves. But even if you’re not feeling particularly confident, here is how to look as if you are: When standing: Stand with your weight evenly distributed on the balls of both feet so you feel balanced and can move easily. Carry your rib cage high and contract your stomach muscles. When sitting: Sit with your rib cage high and inclined slightly forward. If at a desk or conference table, put your forearms on the table resting them midway between your wrist and elbow, hands clasped and no fidgeting! 4. Voice control: Put resonance in your voice by contracting your abdominal muscles and speaking from the diaphragm. To correct

Berthe Morisot paintings

Berthe Morisot paintings
childe hassam paintings
Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.
The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits. A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth.
The Director of Companies was our captain and our host. We four affectionately watched his back as he stood in the bows looking to seaward. On the whole river there was nothing that looked half so nautical. He resembled a pilot, which to a seaman is trustworthiness personified. It was difficult to realize his work was not out there in the luminous estuary

Tamara de Lempicka Self Portrait in Green Bugatti painting

Tamara de Lempicka Self Portrait in Green Bugatti painting
Daniel Ridgway Knight The Honeymoon Breakfast painting
searching light of the spring evening he looked older than Anne had ever seen him. His hair had grown much grayer, and the strong old hand shook a little. But his blue eyes were clear and steady, and the staunch soul looked out through them gallant and unafraid.
Captain Jim listened in amazed silence while Gilbert said what he had come to say. Anne, who knew how the old man worshipped Leslie, felt quite sure that he would side with her, although she had not much hope that this would influence Gilbert. She was therefore surprised beyond measure when Captain Jim, slowly and sorrowfully, but unhesitatingly, gave it as his opinion that Leslie should be told.
"Oh, Captain Jim, I didn't think you'd say that," she exclaimed reproachfully. "I thought you wouldn't want to make more trouble for her."
Captain Jim shook his head.
"I don't want to. I know how you feel about it, Mistress Blythe-- just

Douglas Hofmann Jessica painting

Douglas Hofmann Jessica painting
Pino Tuscan Stroll painting
on the walls, on the vaseful of daffodils from the window garden, on Anne herself, sitting by her little table, with her sewing beside her and her hands clasped over her knee while she traced out pictures in the fire--Castles in Spain whose airy turrets pierced moonlit cloud and sunset bar-ships sailing from the Haven of Good Hopes straight to Four Winds Harbor with precious burthen. For Anne was again a dreamer of dreams, albeit a grim shape of fear went with her night and day to shadow and darken her visions.
Gilbert was accustomed to refer to himself as "an old married man." But he still looked upon Anne with the incredulous eyes of a lover. He couldn't wholly believe yet that she was really his. It might be only a dream after all, part and parcel of this magic house of dreams. His soul still went on tip-toe before her, lest the charm be shattered and the dream dispelled.
"Anne," he said slowly, "lend me your ears. I want to talk with you about something."
Anne looked across at him through the fire-lit gloom.

Albert Bierstadt Yosemite Valley painting

Albert Bierstadt Yosemite Valley painting
John William Godward The Delphic Oracle painting
that's why you and Leslie can't get real close together in your souls. The barrier between you is her experience of sorrow and trouble. She ain't responsible for it and you ain't; but it's there and neither of you can cross it."
"My childhood wasn't very happy before I came to Green Gables," said Anne, gazing soberly out of the window at the still, sad, dead beauty of the leafless tree-shadows on the moonlit snow.
"Mebbe not--but it was just the usual unhappiness of a child who hasn't anyone to look after it properly. There hasn't been any tragedy in your life, Mistress Blythe. And poor Leslie's has been almost all tragedy. She feels, I reckon, though mebbe she hardly knows she feels it, that there's a vast deal in her life you can't enter nor understand--and so she has to keep you back from it--hold you off, so to speak, from hurting her. You know if we've got anything about us that hurts we shrink from anyone's touch on or near it. It holds good with our souls as well as our bodies, I reckon. Leslie's soul must be near raw--it's no wonder she hides it away."
"If that were really all, I wouldn't mind, Captain Jim. I would understand. But there

Louise Abbema paintings

Louise Abbema paintings
Leonardo da Vinci paintings
the harbor shore. The rows of tall Lombardy poplars down its lane stood out in stately, purple silhouette against the sky. Behind it, sheltering its garden from the too keen breath of sea winds, was a cloudy fir wood, in which the winds might make all kinds of weird and haunting music. Like all woods, it seemed to be holding and enfolding secrets in its recesses,--secrets whose charm is only to be won by entering in and patiently seeking. Outwardly, dark green arms keep them inviolate from curious or indifferent eyes.
The night winds were beginning their wild dances beyond the bar and the fishing hamlet across the harbor was gemmed with lights as Anne and Gilbert drove up the poplar lane. The door of the little house opened, and a warm glow of firelight flickered out into the dusk. Gilbert lifted Anne from the buggy and led her into the garden, through the little gate between the ruddy-tipped firs, up the trim, red path to the sandstone step.
"Welcome home," he whispered, and hand in hand they stepped over the threshold of their house of dreams.

Jacques-Louis David paintings

Jacques-Louis David paintings
John Everett Millais paintings
Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.
"I'm so glad the sun will shine on me," she thought happily.
She recalled the first morning she had wakened in that little porch room, when the sunshine had crept in on her through the blossom- drift of the old Snow Queen. That had not been a happy wakening, for it brought with it the bitter disappointment of the preceding night. But since then the little room had been endeared and consecrated by years of happy childhood dreams and maiden visions. To it she had come back joyfully after all her absences; at its window she had knelt through that night of bitter agony when she believed Gilbert dying, and by it she had sat in speechless happiness the night of her betrothal. Many vigils of joy and some of sorrow had been kept there; and today she must leave it forever. Henceforth it would be hers no more; fifteen-year-old Dora was to inherit it when she had gone. Nor did Anne wish it otherwise; the little room was sacred to youth and girlhood--to the past that was to close today before the chapter of wifehood opened.
Green Gables was a busy and

Flamenco Dancer paintings

Flamenco Dancer paintings
Franz Marc paintings
He's Gilbert Blythe," said Marilla contentedly. Marilla would have died the death before she would have put into words the thought that was always in the background of her mind whenever she had looked at Gilbert from his childhood up--the thought that, had it not been for her own wilful pride long, long ago, he might have been her son. Marilla felt that, in some strange way, his marriage with Anne would put right that old mistake. Good had come out of the evil of the ancient bitterness.
As for Anne herself, she was so happy that she almost felt frightened. The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not. Two of that ilk descended upon Anne one violet dusk and proceeded to do what in them lay to prick the rainbow bubble of her satisfaction. If she thought she was getting any particular prize in young Dr. Blythe, or if she imagined that he was still as infatuated with her as he might have been in his salad days, it was surely their duty to put the matter before her in another light. Yet these two worthy ladies were not enemies of Anne; on the contrary, they were really quite fond of her, and would have defended her as their

Don Li-Leger paintings

Don Li-Leger paintings
David Hardy paintings
Yes. That was what I wanted to tell you when I 'phoned to you to come down today. By the way, I can't realize that we really have telephones in Avonlea now. It sounds so preposterously up-to-date and modernish for this darling, leisurely old place."
"We can thank the A. V. I. S. for them," said Diana. "We should never have got the line if they hadn't taken the matter up and carried it through. There was enough cold water thrown to discourage any society. But they stuck to it, nevertheless. You did a splendid thing for Avonlea when you founded that society, Anne. What fun we did have at our meetings! Will you ever forget the blue hall and Judson Parker's scheme for painting medicine advertisements on his fence?"
"I don't know that I'm wholly grateful to the A. V. I. S. in the matter of the telephone," said Anne. "Oh, I know it's most convenient-- even more so than our old device of signalling to each other by flashes of candlelight! And, as Mrs. Rachel says, `Avonlea must keep up with the procession, that's what.' But somehow I feel as if I didn't want Avonlea spoiled by what

Albert Bierstadt Bavarian Landscape painting

Albert Bierstadt Bavarian Landscape painting
Andrew Atroshenko Bold Expression painting
Mrs. Lynde solemnly. "I never saw her look so pleasant before, that's what. Well, there weren't many tears shed over her, poor old soul. The Elisha Wrights are thankful to be rid of her, and I can't say I blame them a mite."
"It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone," said Anne, shuddering.
"Nobody except her parents ever loved poor Atossa, that's certain, not even her husband," averred Mrs. Lynde. "She was his fourth wife. He'd sort of got into the habit of marrying. He only lived a few years after he married her. The doctor said he died of dyspepsia, but I shall always maintain that he died of Atossa's tongue, that's what. Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself. Well, she's gone anyhow; and I suppose the next excitement will be Diana's wedding."
"It seems funny and horrible to think of Diana's being married," sighed Anne, hugging her knees and looking through the gap in the Haunted Wood to the light that was shining in Diana's room.
"I don't see what's horrible about it, when she's doing so well," said Mrs. Lynde emphatically

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Thomas Kinkade almost heaven painting
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evening. Very still and mild it was, wrapped in a great, white, brooding silence -- a silence which was yet threaded through with many little silvery sounds which you could hear if you hearkened as much with your soul as your ears. The girls wandered down a long pineland aisle that seemed to lead right out into the heart of a deep-red, overflowing winter sunset.
"I'd go home and write a poem this blessed minute if I only knew how," declared Phil, pausing in an open space where a rosy light was staining the green tips of the pines. "It's all so wonderful here -- this great, white stillness, and those dark trees that always seem to be thinking."
"`The woods were God's first temples,'" quoted Anne softly. "One can't help feeling reverent and adoring in such a place. I always feel so near Him when I walk among the pines."
"Anne, I'm the happiest girl in the world," confessed Phil suddenly.
"So Mr. Blake has asked you to marry him at last?" said Anne calmly.

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Gustav Klimt lady with hat and feather boa painting
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Life was very pleasant in Avonlea that summer, although Anne, amid all her vacation joys, was haunted by a sense of "something gone which should be there." She would not admit, even in her inmost reflections, that this was caused by Gilbert's absence. But when she had to walk home alone from prayer meetings and A.V.I.S. pow-wows, while Diana and Fred, and many other gay couples, loitered along the dusky, starlit country roads, there was a queer, lonely ache in her heart which she could not explain away. Gilbert did not even write to her, as she thought he might have done. She knew he wrote to Diana occasionally, but she would not inquire about him; and Diana, supposing that Anne heard from him, volunteered no information. Gilbert's mother, who was a gay, frank, light-hearted lady, but not overburdened with tact, had a very embarrassing habit of asking Anne, always in a painfully distinct voice and always in the presence of a crowd, if she had heard from Gilbert lately. Poor Anne could only blush horribly and murmur, "not very lately," which was taken by all, Mrs. Blythe included, to be merely a maidenly evasion.
Apart from this, Anne enjoyed her summer. Priscilla came for a merry visit in June

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William Bouguereau The Nymphaeum painting
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punished with such eyes. Pris and I are going to have such sport with him this afternoon. We'll make fun of him to his face and he'll never know it."
Doubtless, "the abandoned P's," as Anne called them, did carry out their amiable intentions. But Sloane was blissfully ignorant; he thought he was quite a fine fellow to be walking with two such coeds, especially Philippa Gordon, the class beauty and belle. It must surely impress Anne. She would see that some people appreciated him at his real value.
Gilbert and Anne loitered a little behind the others, enjoying the calm, still beauty of the autumn afternoon under the pines of the park, on the road that climbed and twisted round the harbor shore.
"The silence here is like a prayer, isn't it?" said Anne, her face upturned to the shining sky. "How I love the pines! They seem to strike their roots deep into the romance of

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Douglas Hofmann Reclining Nude I painting
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Harrison's -- the big, tall one -- had wandered over here that day again and broke into the yard, and it got into the back porch, unbeknowns to us, and it was there when the minister appeared in the doorway. It made one wild bolt to get out, but there was nowhere to bolt to except between them bow legs. So there it went, and, being as it was so big and the minister so little, it took him clean off his feet and carried him away. His hat went one way and his cane another, just as Marilla and I got to the door. I'll never forget the look of him. And that poor pig was near scared to death. I'll never be able to read that account in the Bible of the swine that rushed madly down the steep place into the sea without seeing Mr. Harrison's pig careering down the with that minister. I guess the pig thought he had the Old Boy on his back instead of inside of him. I was thankful the twins weren't about. It wouldn't have been the right thing for them to have seen a minister in such an undignified predicament. Just before they got to the brook the

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Irene Sheri paintings
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for quite a spell, Milty says. I always s'posed people had to keep on being married once they'd begun, but Milty says no, there's ways of stopping if you can't agree. Milty says one way is just to start off and leave your wife, and that's what Mr. Harrison did. Milty says Mr. Harrison left his wife because she throwed things at him. . .hard things. . .and Arty Sloane says it was because she wouldn't let him smoke, and Ned Clay says it was 'cause she never let up scolding him. I wouldn't leave my wife for anything like that. I'd just put my foot down and say, `Mrs. Davy, you've just got to do what'll please me 'cause I'm a man.' that'd settle her pretty quick I guess. But Annetta Clay says she left him because he wouldn't scrape his boots at the door and she doesn't blame her. I'm going right over to Mr. Harrison's this minute to see what she's like."
Davy soon returned, somewhat cast down.
"Mrs. Harrison was away. . .she's gone to Carmody with Mrs. Rachel Lynde to get new paper

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Caravaggio paintings
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naturally as if he were anybody's son who had come to see her. They all had a jolly afternoon together and such a feast of fat things by way of supper as would have made old Mrs. Irving hold up her hands in horror, believing that Paul's digestion would be ruined for ever.
"Come again, laddie," said Miss Lavendar, shaking hands with him at parting.
"You may kiss me if you like," said Paul gravely.
Miss Lavendar stooped and kissed him.
"How did you know I wanted to?" she whispered.
"Because you looked at me just as my little mother used to do when she wanted to kiss me. As a rule, I don't like to be kissed. Boys don't. You know, Miss Lewis. But I think I rather

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Bartolome Esteban Murillo paintings
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I would like it. . .but not too soon. I want to get used to the thought. There might be more pain than pleasure in it. . .if he looked too much like Stephen. . .or if he didn't look enough like him. In a month's time you may bring him."
Accordingly, a month later Anne and Paul walked through the woods to the stone house, and met Miss Lavendar in the lane. She had not been expecting them just then and she turned very pale.
"So this is Stephen's boy," she said in a low tone, taking Paul's hand and looking at him as he stood, beautiful and boyish, in his smart little fur coat and cap. "He. . .he is very like his father."
"Everybody says I'm a chip off the old block," remarked Paul, quite at his ease.
Anne, who had been watching the little scene, drew a relieved breath. She saw that Miss Lavendar and Paul had "taken" to each other, and that there would be no constraint or stiffness. Miss Lavendar was a very sensible person, in spite of her dreams and romance, and after that first little betrayal she tucked her feelings out of sight and entertained Paul as brightly and

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Douglas Hofmann Jessica painting
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really was so much worse than the weeks that followed it; but it seemed so by reason of its novelty. There was seldom a waking minute of any day when Davy was not in mischief or devising it; but his first notable exploit occurred two days after his arrival, on Sunday morning. . .a fine, warm day, as hazy and mild as September. Anne dressed him for church while Marilla attended to Dora. Davy at first objected strongly to having his face washed.
"Marilla washed it yesterday. . .and Mrs. Wiggins scoured me with hard soap the day of the funeral. That's enough for one week. I don't see the good of being so awful clean. It's lots more comfable being dirty."
"Paul Irving washes his face every day of his own accord," said Anne astutely.
Davy had been an inmate of Green Gables for little over forty-eight hours; but he already worshipped Anne and hated Paul Irving, whom he had heard Anne praising enthusiastically the day after his arrival. If Paul Irving washed his face every day, that settled it. He, Davy Keith, would do it too, if it killed him. The same consideration induced him to submit meekly to the other details of his toilet, and he was really a handsome little lad when all was done

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Gustave Courbet paintings
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No, indeed, I'm not as mean as that," exclaimed Anne. "This is all my fault and I'm certainly not going to let you take my punishment. I'll go myself and I'll go at once. The sooner it's over the better, for it will be terribly humiliating."
Poor Anne got her hat and her twenty dollars and was passing out when she happened to glance through the open pantry door. On the table reposed a nut cake which she had baked that morning. . .a particularly toothsome concoction iced with pink icing and adorned with walnuts. Anne had intended it for Friday evening, when the youth of Avonlea were to meet at Green Gables to organize the Improvement Society. But what were they compared to the justly offended Mr. Harrison? Anne thought that cake ought to soften the heart of any man, especially one who had to do his own cooking, and she promptly popped it into a box. She would take it to Mr. Harrison as a peace offering.
"That is, if he gives me a chance to say anything at all," she thought ruefully, as she climbed the lane fence and started on a short cut across the fields, golden in the light of the dreamy August evening. "I know now just how people feel who are being led to execution."

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Eugene de Blaas paintings
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Avonlea school won't be the worse for a little new blood," said Marilla drily, "and if this boy is anything like his father he'll be all right. Steve Irving was the nicest boy that was ever raised in these parts, though some people did call him proud. I should think Mrs. Irving would be very glad to have the child. She has been very lonesome since her husband died."
"Oh, the boy may be well enough, but he'll be different from Avonlea children," said Mrs. Rachel, as if that clinched the matter. Mrs. Rachel's opinions concerning any person, place, or thing, were always warranted to wear. "What's this I hear about your going to start up a Village Improvement Society, Anne?"
"I was just talking it over with some of the girls and boys at the last Debating Club," said Anne, flushing. "They thought it would be rather nice. . .and so do Mr. and Mrs. Allan. Lots of villages have them now."
"Well, you'll get into no end of hot water if you do. Better leave it alone