Francois Boucher Leda and the Swan painting

Francois Boucher Leda and the Swan paintingJohannes Vermeer the Milkmaid paintingJohannes Vermeer The Love letter painting
Snape set off around the edge of the room, speaking now in a lower voice; the class craned their necks to keep him in view. “The Dark Arts," said Snape, "are many, varied, ever-changing, and eternal. Fighting them is like fighting a many-headed monster, which, each time a neck is severed, sprouts a head even fiercer and cleverer than before. You are fighting that which is unfixed, mutating, indestructible."
Harry stared at Snape. It was surely one thing to respect the Dark Arts as a dangerous enemy, another to speak of them, as Snape was doing, with a loving caress in his voice?
"Your defenses," said Snape, a little louder, "must therefore be as flexible and inventive as the arts you seek to undo. These pictures” - he indicated a few of them as he swept past - "give a fair

Guido Reni Angel of the Annunciation painting

Guido Reni Angel of the Annunciation paintingFrancois Boucher Venus Consoling Love paintingFrancois Boucher The Interrupted Sleep painting
have not asked you to take out your books," said Snape, closing the door and moving to face the class from behind his desk; Hermione hastily dropped her copy of Confronting the Faceless back into her bag and stowed it under her chair. "I wish to speak to you, and I want your fullest attention."
His black eyes roved over their upturned faces, lingering for a fraction of a second longer on Harry's than anyone else's.
"You have had five teachers in this subject so far, I believe."
You believe . . . like you haven't watched them all come and go, hoping you'd be next, thought Harry scathingly.
“Naturally, these teachers will all have had their own methods and priorities. Given this confusion I am surprised so many of you scraped an O.W.L. in this subject. I shall be even more surprised if all of you manage to keep up with the N.E.W.T. work, which will be more advanced."

Claude Monet Monet Water Lillies I painting

Claude Monet Monet Water Lillies I painting
Claude Monet Boulevard des Capucines painting
Harry led them all back into the kitchen where, laughing and chattering, they settled on chairs, sat themselves upon Aunt Petunia's gleaming work surfaces, or leaned up against her spotless appliances; Ron, long and lanky; Hermione, her bushy hair tied back in a long plait; Fred and George, grinning identically; Bill, badly scarred and longhaired; Mr. Weasley, kind-faced, balding, his spectacles a little awry; Mad-Eye, battle-worn, one-legged, his bright blue magical eye whizzing in its socket; Tonks, whose short hair was her favorite shade of bright pink; Lupin, grayer, more lined; Fleur, slender and beautiful, with her long silvery blonde hair; Kingsley, bald and broad-shouldered; Hagrid, with his wild hair and beard, standing hunchbacked to avoid hitting his head on the ceiling; and Mundungus Fletcher, small, dirty, and hangdog, with his droopy beady hound's eyes and matted hair. Harry's heart seemed to expand and glow at the sight: He

Mary Cassatt Children Playing On The Beach painting

Mary Cassatt Children Playing On The Beach painting
Mary Cassatt Tea painting
dragon-fire button again, with Harry seated so insecurely. Harry sent Stunning Spell after Stunning Spell back at their pursuers, barely holding them off. He shot another blocking jinx at them: The closest Death Eater swerved to avoid it and his hood slipped, and by the red light of his next Stunning Spell, Harry saw the strangely blank face of Stanley Shunpike – Stan –

"Expelliarmus!" Harry yelled.

"That's him, it's him, it's the real one!"

　　　The hooded Death Eater's shout reached Harry even above the thunder of the motorbike's engine: Next moment, both pursuers had fallen back and disappeared from view.

Gustav Klimt The Kiss painting

Gustav Klimt The Kiss painting
Gustav Klimt Sea Serpents painting
superficial fungal infection. The median time to onset of first invasive fungal infection was 13 days, first invasive Candida infection 9 days, and first invasive Aspergillus infection 21 days. Fifteen deaths were related to invasive fungal infection, 10 to Aspergillus infection, and 5 to Candida infection. Invasive Candida species infections were associated with encephalopathy (P=0.009) and postoperative bacterial infection (P=0.0003) as demonstrated by multivariate analysis. Three independent risk factors of invasive Aspergillus infection were posttransplant laparotomy (P=0.004), renal dysfunction (P=0.005) and hemodialysis (P=0.001). Conclusions The leading etiologic species of invasive fungal infections are Candida and Aspergillus, which frequently occur in the first posttransplant month. Encephalopathy and postoperative bacterial infection predispose to invasive Candida infection. Posttransplant laparotomy and poor perioperative clinical status contribute to invasive Aspergillus infection. More studies are needed to determine the effect of prophylactic antifungal therapy in high risk patients.

Francois Boucher The Rape of Europa painting

Francois Boucher The Rape of Europa painting
Michelangelo Buonarroti The Creation of Adam painting
Why did the President feel that this was wrong, and why was the President right and his critics wrong? Because again, this showed a lack of understanding of dictators, a lack of understanding particularly of Communists, because every time you make such a concession, it does not lead to peace, it only encourages them to blackmail you, it encourages them to begin a war And so I say, that the records show that we know how to keep the peace, to keep it without surrender Let us move now to the future.It's not enough to stand on this record, because we are dealing with the most ruthless, fanatical leaders that the world has ever seen. That is why I say that in this period of the Sixties, America must move forward in every area. First of all, although we are today as Senator Kennedy has admitted, the strongest

Edgar Degas Four Dancers painting

Edgar Degas Four Dancers painting
Edgar Degas dance class painting
There's a well-known list of seemingly uncanny links between Presidents Kennedy and Lincoln. John Kennedy Jr.'s death adds to it; three of Lincoln's four sons died young, at the ages of 4, 12 and 18. A short and very partial list: Lincoln was elected president in 1860, Kennedy one century later. Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy, and Kennedy had one named Lincoln. Both men were assassinated while in office. Both assassins used their middle names. One of the assassins fled from a warehouse to a theater, the other went in the opposite direction. The names "Lincoln" and "Kennedy" both have seven letters, and on and on and on.

Pablo Picasso Gertrude Stein painting

Pablo Picasso Gertrude Stein painting
Tamara de Lempicka Portrait of Madame painting
Imported cars will become cheaper for Chinese buyers, too, as the tariff rate falls to 25 percent from the current, prohibitive level of 80 percent to 100 percent. Car sales are already experiencing a drop in volume as consumers postpone their purchases in anticipation of hefty price discounts. And American auto companies will finally be able to provide their customers with car loans
Sunday October 29, 3:00 AMTeenage pop star Britney Spears said on October 29, 2000 that she was not conducting an e-mail friendship with Prince William and was 'in love' with her pop star boyfriend Justin Timberlake.
LONDON - U.S. pop star Britney Spears has denied that she has struck up an e-mail friendship with Prince William, the News Of The World reported on Sunday. "I really don't know where these stories come from," the 18-year-old told the tabloid.

Gustave Courbet The Origin of the World painting

Gustave Courbet The Origin of the World painting
Gustave Courbet Plage de Normandie painting
Transmeta downplayed the fallout of IBM's decision and said it remains confident in its growing list of customers.Santa Clara, Calif.-based Transmeta unveiled its Crusoe chip in January after five years of highly secretive development. The chip's "code-morphing" technology is supposed to consume less power and give off less heat and thus extend the battery life for laptop computers.Transmeta has been positioning itself to cut into the market share of Intel Corp.IBM was among several laptop manufacturers at the PC Expo in June to show off a prototype using the Crusoe chip. Sony Corp., Fujitsu Ltd., and NEC Corp have each begun using Crusoe chips in the latest models of their ultralight laptops."IBM was the biggest feather in Transmeta's cap," Kleynhans said. "To make up the volume it would have had with IBM, it would need two or three other computer makers, and they still wouldn't have the prestige of IBM."

Johannes Vermeer girl with the pearl earring painting

Johannes Vermeer girl with the pearl earring painting
Gustav Klimt The Three Ages of Woman painting
Street's wrath, with Cisco Systems (NasdaqNM:CSCO) falling 13 percent and EMC Corp (NYSE:EMC), the No. 1 data storage company, sliding over 18 percent. "Technology stocks are suffering assassination by valuation," said Prudential Securities analyst Bryan Piskorowski. "Ultimately the underpinnings of a slowing economy are translating into lower prices for high-value tech stocks." The Nasdaq Composite Index (^IXIC) plunged 178.66 points, or 7.23 percent, to a 22-month closing low of 2,291.86. It had closed the year 2000 on Friday with the largest decline in its 29-year history. Tuesday's drop was Nasdaq seventh-largest ever in percentage terms. The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average (^DJI) slipped 140.70 points, or 1.30 percent, to 10,646.15, after finishing

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres The Grande Odalisque painting

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres The Grande Odalisque painting
Bartolome Esteban Murillo Madonna with the Rosary painting
January, Sargen worries that Wall Street will get ahead of itself, and rally on overoptimistic expectations. That's what happened this week, when the Fed didn’t cut rates as the market had hoped, and instead just tilted toward cutting rates in the future."Will the market have worked itself into a frenzy so that if the Fed cuts 25 basis points [0.25 percent] instead of 50 basis points it won't be enough?" he said. "Nobody knows."
Carly Fiorina, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard, speaks during her keynote address at Comdex, Monday, Nov. 13, 2000, in Las Vegas.
For the first time in its history, the opening day of the world's largest technology trade show started and ended with women.Comdex, the behemoth convention that lures up to 220,000 techno-nerds to Las Vegas every November, has tagged women as a target market. And for the first time, its schedule last week included special events designed to welcome women into what has traditionally been a male-dominated event.

Douglas Hofmann paintings

Douglas Hofmann paintings
Diane Romanello paintings
Regular pediatricians treat most affected children and report difficulty referring serious patients to mental health specialists, including appointment waits of three to four months. Some communities offer no child mental health services at all. In one study, some children with emotional disorders didn't get proper school services until age 10. Just as for adults, insurance coverage for children's mental health is spotty. Advocates told of parents who relinquished custody so their children could receive welfare-funded therapy. One juvenile detention center study found over two-thirds of detainees had a psychiatric disorder. Yet the juvenile justice system seldom screens children for treatable illnesses. The report urges mental health training for doctors, teachers, welfare and juvenile justice workers, and better access to care. Satcher said

Landscape painting

Landscape painting
Lighthouse paintings
The agency estimates that 800 million people do not have access to health services, and 500 million are chronically malnourished. Some 90 million children are unable to attend primary school and 230 million have no access to secondary school."Competition behind a football is much easier for me," the Juventus player said. "Today's battle is very difficult. It's not yet won. It won't be easy for me or anyone else."But we should not be deterred by the magnitude of remaining problems because the good news is that each of us can do something to help reduce poverty."The son of an Algerian immigrant born and raised in a tough suburb of Marseille, Zizou as he is popularly known in France has since risen to dizzying heights of stardom.

Don Li-Leger paintings

Don Li-Leger paintings
David Hardy paintings

Even though the "who will win" Oscar suspense is over for another year, we were still left with a lingering sense of mystery after Sunday's ceremony.
Who knew Tom Cruise was going to be a presenter? Who was Russell Crowe's mystery date? Who won the TV by giving the shortest speech? And just how long did Julia Roberts' acceptance speech last, anyway? We unearthed the answers to these Oscar-night head-scratchers, so read on.Tom's Stealth MissionTom Cruise, who's kept a low profile since filing for divorce from wife Nicole Kidman, made his first public appearance to present the award for Best Director, but few knew he was even going to be there. His appearance at the ceremony was kept so hush-hush that even members of the production staff didn't know he was showing up, Variety's Army Archerd reports, since the actor's name wasn't in the program and he didn't attend rehearsals.

Claude Monet Poppy Field In A Hollow Near Giverny painting

Claude Monet Poppy Field In A Hollow Near Giverny painting
Fabian Perez tergopelo II painting
any of them saw use."There's a lot of uncertainty," says Victor Dricks, a spokesman at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which must approve all plans for the construction of nuclear power plants. "The bottom line is, because nobody has built one here for 20 years, our expectation is it would take them five or six years."The NRC has made changes to streamline its approval process, allowing companies to apply for building and operating rights at the same time. But Dricks still estimates that licensing, combined with construction, would make the total time needed to get a nuclear plant up and running anywhere from six to nine years: "Our expectation is the year 2010," he adds. Pebble Plans

Claude Monet Water Lily Pond painting

Claude Monet Water Lily Pond painting
Pino Desire painting
How to Avoid Getting 'Cloned’Never let your credit or debit card out of your sight.Rigorously check monthly statements.Contact your bank immediately if there are any transactions that are not recognized.Do not throw away card receipts. Keep them to check against your statement. London at Heart of the ActionWhile skimming is affecting credit card users throughout the world, London has become the center for this latest scam. London police recently cracked a massive credit card fraud ring and earlier this year, two Russian nationals were sentenced to four years each and also served with a deportation order for their part in the crime.One, Vladimir Stronguine, distributed skimming devices and controlled a network of Eastern European waiters working throughout London

Pierre Auguste Renoir La Moulin de la Galette painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir La Moulin de la Galette painting
Guan zeju Reflecting painting
The writings put the founding of the city more than 2,300 years ago, before ancient Alexandria was founded in 331 B.C.Herakleion was at the mouth of the Nile, flourishing for thousands of years, from early times of the Egyptian pharaohs into the Middle Ages, according to historians.The Egyptians used to describe the city as the "city of the mouth of the sea." The discoveries have led to a new map totally different than any of previous attempts. The first one was drawn in 1866 based on the ancient writings, and several others were drawn during the 19th and 20th centuries.All assumed that most construction was on the eastern part of the port. Goddio and his team discovered that there were some structures on the western side as well.The stela and statues are to be taken to a laboratory for desalinization treatment before going on an international tour at the end of 2003.

Andrew Atroshenko paintings

Andy Warhol Banana
Alfred Gockel paintings
they find dead carcasses in such a clean, dark, cold, featureless landscape."Spreading Censors ExploredAt the other end of North America, the spanking new Coast Guard icebreaker will have one primary target on its list. Scientists aboard the Healy will study the Gakkel Ridge, more than 3 miles below the surface. The Gakkel Ridge is one of many "spreading centers" around the world where chunks of the seafloor are spreading apart, allowing new ocean bottom to form as magma flows up through the ridge.But what makes the Gakkel Ridge so fascinating to scientists is it spreads at about a twentieth of the pace of other spreading centers. And unlike other ridges, which bubble with heat as molten rock spews onto the ocean floor, Gakkel is sort of like a "big crack in the Earth," according to Henry Dick of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who first came up with the

Carl Fredrik Aagard paintings

Carl Fredrik Aagard paintings
Caravaggio paintings

It's 10 p.m. You may not know where your child is, but the chip does.
The chip will also know if your child has fallen and needs immediate help. Once paramedics arrive, the chip will also be able to tell the rescue workers which drugs little Johnny or Janie is allergic to. At the hospital, the chip will tell doctors his or her complete medical history.And of course, when you arrive to pick up your child, settling the hospital bill with your health insurance policy will be a simple matter of waving your own chip — the one embedded in your hand.To some, this may sound far-fetched. But the technology for such chips is no longer the stuff of science fiction. And it may soon offer many other benefits besides locating lost children or elderly Alzheimer patients.

church painting

church painting
City painting
Police officer Celerissimo De Simone told The AP the pilot of the aircraft had sent out a distress call at 5:54 p.m. just before crashing.Italian TV said the pilot's SOS involved a technical problem.Police say the plane was an Air Commando — a small plane similar to a Piper. Initial reports described the plane as a Piper, but did not note the specific model.According to aviation expert John Nance, Piper planes have no history of mechanical troubles or other problems that would lead a pilot to lose control."Those aircraft have direct mechanical controls," says Nance. "If you have a control problem, it would be the loss of an engine, and those are either controllable or not."Reminders of a Dark DayU.S. officials said that they had no indication the crash was a terrorist attack. Neither American nor Italian forces were on heightened alert, they said.

Garden painting

Garden painting
Hunting paintings
The recently revealed statistics show that the average cost of getting married in Shanghai is at least 150,000 yuan (US,000) if these essentials are taken into account. 　　Who pays the bill? 　　Compared with 20 years ago, when a couple amassed a bicycle, a radio and some furniture then had their union rubber-stamped at a local government office, the changes are great. 　　Yet is the locals' salary increasing at the same speed as the wedding costs? 　　Relevant government bureaux say the average urban worker earns 1,530 yuan (US) a month. That is to say that getting married in Shanghai actually costs eight years' salary for an average Chinese worker. 　　Although many young people find spending too much on the wedding is actually unnecessary, most of them are also finding it hard to resist. 　　Part of the pressure comes from the parents. Over 95 per cent of local

Philip Craig Twilight Courtyard painting

Philip Craig Twilight Courtyard painting
John Singer Sargent Sargent Poppies painting
An electronic ticker on the front shows what Ben Cohen says are Bush's lies. The head is a rotating cylinder with various Bush facial expressions. White House spokesman Ken Lisaius said most people in America support Bush's policies, and that the president supports free speech. "The president welcomes the fact that we live in a democracy and that people in this country are free to make their own opinions known," Lisaius said. "I believe that it's disrespectful of the president to essentially lead the country based on lies," Cohen said. "If that happens, then I believe it's actually our patriotic duty to make people aware of it." The traveling 'PantsOnFire-Mobile' is touring nationwide, with its next stop in Seattle in two weeks. The tour began last November on Long Island, N.Y., and will continue until the Nov. 2 elections. It has already made stops in Florida, Texas, Arizona and Colorado.

Claude Monet Woman In A Green Dress painting

Claude Monet Woman In A Green Dress painting
John William Godward Nu Sur La Plage painting
China's head coach Arie Haan, apparently in a low spirit, found himself hard to accept the way his team lost the game. "I don't want to comment much about the game. My players are not as experienced as the Japanese players. The Japanese players were more clever when body contacts happened. I am happy with my players' performance, But I am disappointed at the way we lost," the Dutchman said.Arie Haan also accused Kuwaiti referee Saad Al Fadhli of making wrong calls on all three Japanese goals and boycotted the awards ceremony. "I'm feeling very disappointed and feel sorry for the beautiful fans of China to lose a game one should not lose," Haan said.Chinese soccer fans are disappointed after the Chinese teams lose to Japan in the Asian Cup final match. After the game, crowds chanting anti-Japanese insults broke bottles and exchanged kicks and punches with police outside the stadium.

Frederick Carl Frieseke paintings

Frederick Carl Frieseke paintings
Flamenco Dancer paintings
because more men are having more emotional affairs (meaning their feelings for the "other woman" go beyond just sexual) with coworkers. Meanwhile, women are having more sexual affairs," says Glass. One reason: Women now feel You always had the boss who ran off with his secretary, but now I see many men who are in good marriages and are not traditional philanderers who form these deep friendships," she says. "They cross these lines and become more emotionally intblue or down in the dumps. Life has its ups and downs, and it's normal for children to grieve over a loss or feel sad for a few hours or days at a time. But if his melancholy lasts for more than a couple of weeks or seems to interfere with about depression is that it's almost always treatable. The key is identifying the problem and getting help. What are the symptomsimate than they are in their marriage. If there's some sexual attraction less likely to jeopardize it," says Lonnie Barbach, PhD, co-author with David Geisinger of Going the Distance: Finding and Keeping Lifelong Love (Plume, 1993).licensed mental health professional trained to work with children and adolescents

Diego Rivera paintings

Diego Rivera paintings
Don Li-Leger paintings
and Means Committee, said that no matter how politicians change Social Security, any overhaul package should also look for ways to increase private savings and pensions, which make up a larger share of retirement income for many Americans.Thomas also said Congress should change Social Security to fix inequities that penalize beneficiaries such as widows and working women. He said merely adjusting the system to reflect the increased number of working women would represent a "major societal leap into the 21st century."Thomas' comments came after a six-hour hearing that launched the panel's first major review of Social Security in a generation. Thomas gave his clearest description yet of how he would overhaul the nation's retirement system. Without change, the New Deal program will exhaust its trust fund by the middle of the century, and workers' payroll taxes will be able to support only 70%-80% of promised benefits.

painting in oil

painting in oil
Women use all kinds of ways of telling people what to do without giving a direct order, Deborah Tannen said in a presentation based on her book, “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation.” “A woman might say, 'I would do it this way' or 'Is there any way you can get that done today, so we can send it out tomorrow?'"The bottom lineMen and women may communicate differently, but these differences don’t spell disaster in the workplace, says Lynda Ford, a human resources expert and author of “Transform Your
Which four little words will change a man's life forever? ("I'll have a Bud" doesn't count.) Try, "Will you marry me?" Not merely a question, a marriage proposal is the climax of a totally (and hopefully perfectly) choreographed surprise. Here's how five men popped the question -- and made their beloved pop a gasket.
Romeo #1:Jennifer and I are big fans of BR5-49, a Southern rockabilly band, so I decided to propose at one of their gigs. Between sets, I found two of the musicians

Albert Bierstadt Buffalo Country painting

Albert Bierstadt Buffalo Country painting
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Ingres The Source painting
though happiness is important,actually money is the base of it.because you can not be alive without money,nearly everything besides you has relation with money.rich dose not often accompany with afraid,why can not we live in rich and happy.People are unhappy not for the life is bad but for it is better than before.As we all know people‘s appetite is endless. May be this is the motivity for the development of society. So the new world is belonged to the people who are seasoned with the pressure and change.So the direction of develop can‘t be changed,why don‘t we alter our attitude toward the work and the life. Above is just my personal comment for you reference.Although the country mouse live poor and happy, it‘s life is very silly; The city mouse live in a danger place, but it get more and nice, and it would learn more though the danger life,it‘s life would be never bore,but very exiting!For it is nicer to be poor and happy" is a life style,But" to be rich and afraid.” is another life style, Because different the world is so wonderful!Moreover,every body have themselves aspire. So as endeavor but regretless!money is important for us,but they are many things more inportant than it,such as love,life and so on.I like the country mouse‘s life

Vladimir Volegov paintings

Vladimir Volegov paintings
Vincent van Gogh paintings
, no, Susan, we haven't quarrelled. It's only--Gilbert is going to buy the Morgan place, and we'll have to go and live at the Glen. And it will break my heart."
Susan did not enter into Anne's feelings at all. She was, indeed, quite rejoiced over the prospect of living at the Glen. Her one grievance against her place in the little house was its lonesome location.
"Why, Mrs. Doctor, dear, it will be splendid. The Morgan house is such a fine, big one."
"I hate big houses," sobbed Anne.
"Oh, well, you will not hate them by the time you have half a dozen children," remarked Susan calmly. "And this house is too small already for us. We have no spare room, since Mrs. Moore is here, and that pantry is the most aggravating place I ever tried to work in. There is a corner every way you turn. Besides, it is out-of-the-world down here. There is really nothing at all but scenery."
"Out of your world perhaps, Susan--but not out of mine," said Anne with

John William Waterhouse Gather ye rosebuds while ye may painting

John William Waterhouse Gather ye rosebuds while ye may painting
Pierre Auguste Renoir Two Sisters (On the Terrace) painting
he doesn't I know Captain Jim'll manage someway that Leslie won't have to. He said as much to me. `I'm getting old, Cornelia,' he said, `and I've no chick or child of my own. Leslie won't take a gift from a living man, but mebbe she will from a dead one.' So it will be all right as far as that goes. I wish everything else might be settled as satisfactorily. As for that wretch of a Dick, he's been awful these last few days. The devil was in him, believe me! Leslie and I couldn't get on with our work for the tricks he'd play. He chased all her ducks one day around the yard till most of them died. And not one thing would he do for us. Sometimes, you know, he'll make himself quite handy, bringing in pails of water and wood. But this week if we sent him to the well he'd try to climb down into it. I thought once, `If you'd only shoot down there head-first everything would be nicely settled.'"
"Oh, Miss Cornelia!"
"Now, you needn't Miss Cornelia me, Anne, dearie. anybody would have thought the same. If the Montreal doctors can make a rational creature out of Dick Moore they're wonders

Claude Monet Boulevard des Capucines painting

Claude Monet Boulevard des Capucines painting
Thomas Kinkade NASCAR THUNDER painting
worn out and moth eaten. Why is it that so many of the words connected with death are so disagreeable? I do wish that the custom of calling a dead body `the remains' could be abolished. I positively shiver when I hear the undertaker say at a funeral, `All who wish to see the remains please step this way.' It always gives me the horrible impression that I am about to view the scene of a cannibal feast."
"Well, all I hope," said Miss Cornelia calmly, "is that when I'm dead nobody will call me `our departed sister.' I took a scunner at this sister-and-brothering business five years ago when there was a travelling evangelist holding meetings at the Glen. I hadn't any use for him from the start. I felt in my bones that there was something wrong with him. And there was. Mind you, he was pretending to be a Presbyterian--Presbytarian, he called it--and all the time he was a Methodist. He brothered and sistered everybody. He had a large circle of relations, that man had. He clutched my hand fervently one night, and said imploringly, `My dear sister Bryant, are you a

Theodore Chasseriau Apollo and Daphne painting

Theodore Chasseriau Apollo and Daphne painting
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Virgin of the Adoption painting
I haven't seen any this spring, and I've missed them," said Anne, burying her face in them.
"They ain't to be found around Four Winds, only in the barrens away behind the Glen up yander. I took a little trip today to the Land-of-nothing-to-do, and hunted these up for you. I reckon they're the last you'll see this spring, for they're nearly done."
"How kind and thoughtful you are, Captain Jim. Nobody else-- not even Gilbert"--with a shake of her head at him--"remembered that I always long for mayflowers in spring."
"Well, I had another errand, too--I wanted to take Mr. Howard back yander a mess of trout. He likes one occasional, and it's all I can do for a kindness he did me once. I stayed all the afternoon and talked to him. He likes to talk to me, though he's a highly eddicated man and I'm only an ignorant old sailor, because he's one of the folks that's got to talk or they're miserable, and he finds listeners scarce around here. The Glen folks fight shy of him because they think he's an infidel. He ain't that far gone exactly--few men is, I reckon--but he's what you might call a heretic. Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've

James Childs paintings

James Childs paintings
John Singleton Copley paintings
swallowed the pride of years and spoke to you."
"And all heaven opened before me," supplemented Gilbert. "From that moment I looked forward to tomorrow. When I left you at your gate that night and walked home I was the happiest boy in the world. Anne had forgiven me."
"I think you had the most to forgive. I was an ungrateful little wretch--and after you had really saved my life that day on the pond, too. How I loathed that load of obligation at first! I don't deserve the happiness that has come to me."
Gilbert laughed and clasped tighter the girlish hand that wore his ring. Anne's engagement ring was a circlet of pearls. She had refused to wear a diamond.
"I've never really liked diamonds since I found out they weren't the lovely purple I had dreamed. They will always suggest my old disappointment ."
"But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected.

George Owen Wynne Apperley paintings

George Owen Wynne Apperley paintings
Gustave Courbet paintings
. He says he must come to my wedding, no matter what happens to Europe."
"That child always idolised you," remarked Mrs. Rachel.
"That `child' is a young man of nineteen now, Mrs. Lynde."
"How time does fly!" was Mrs. Lynde's brilliant and original response.
"Charlotta the Fourth may come with them. She sent word by Paul that she would come if her husband would let her. I wonder if she still wears those enormous blue bows, and whether her husband calls her Charlotta or Leonora. I should love to have Charlotta at my wedding. Charlotta and I were at a wedding long syne. They expect to be at Echo Lodge next week. Then there are Phil and the Reverend Jo----"
"It sounds awful to hear you speaking of a minister like that, Anne," said Mrs. Rachel severely.
"His wife calls him that."

Carl Fredrik Aagard paintings

Carl Fredrik Aagard paintings
Caravaggio paintings
of course there are no cannibals in Japan."
"Your wedding dress is a dream, anyhow," sighed Diana rapturously. "You'll look like a perfect queen in it--you're so tall and slender. How do you keep so slim, Anne? I'm fatter than ever--I'll soon have no waist at all."
"Stoutness and slimness seem to be matters of predestination," said Anne. "At all events, Mrs. Harmon Andrews can't say to you what she said to me when I came home from Summerside, `Well, Anne, you're just about as skinny as ever.' It sounds quite romantic to be `slender,' but `skinny' has a very different tang."
"Mrs. Harmon has been talking about your trousseau. She admits it's as nice as Jane's, although she says Jane married a millionaire and you are only marrying a `poor young doctor without a cent to his name.'"
Anne laughed.

Pierre Auguste Renoir The Boating Party Lunch I painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir The Boating Party Lunch I painting
Francisco de Goya Nude Maja painting
faint, and nothing untoward occurred to interrupt the ceremony. Feasting and merry-making followed; then, as the evening waned, Fred and Diana drove away through the moonlight to their new home, and Gilbert walked with Anne to Green Gables.
Something of their old comradeship had returned during the informal mirth of the evening. Oh, it was nice to be walking over that well-known road with Gilbert again!
The night was so very still that one should have been able to hear the whisper of roses in blossom -- the laughter of daisies -- the piping of grasses -- many sweet sounds, all tangled up together. The beauty of moonlight on familiar fields irradiated the world.
"Can't we take a ramble up Lovers' Lane before you go in?" asked Gilbert as they crossed the bridge over the Lake of Shining Waters, in which the moon lay like a great, drowned blossom of gold.
Anne assented readily. Lovers' Lane was a veritable path in a fairyland that night

Fabian Perez Flamenco DancerII painting

Fabian Perez Flamenco DancerII painting
Edward Hopper Ground Swell painting
Royal Gardner!" she exclaimed. "Why, Anne, I didn't know you were acquainted with Roy Gardner!"
"I met him in the park this afternoon in the rain," explained Anne hurriedly. "My umbrella turned inside out and he came to my rescue with his."
"Oh!" Phil peered curiously at Anne." And is that exceedingly commonplace incident any reason why he should send us longstemmed roses by the dozen, with a very sentimental rhyme? Or why we should blush divinest rosy-red when we look at his card? Anne, thy face betrayeth thee."
"Don't talk nonsense, Phil. Do you know Mr. Gardner?"
"I've met his two sisters, and I know of him. So does everybody worthwhile in Kingsport. The Gardners are among the richest, bluest, of Bluenoses. Roy is adorably handsome and clever. Two years ago his mother's health failed and he had to leave college and go abroad with her -- his father is dead. He must have been greatly disappointed to have to give up his class, but they say he was perfectly sweet about it. Fee -- fi -- fo -- fum, Anne. I smell romance. Almost do I envy you, but not quite. After all, Roy Gardner isn't Jonas."

Louis Aston Knight A Bend in the River painting

Louis Aston Knight A Bend in the River painting
Albert Bierstadt Autumn in America Oneida County New York painting
Are you sure of that, Anne?"
"Perfectly sure."
"I'm very, very sorry."
"I wonder why everybody seems to think I ought to marry Gilbert Blythe," said Anne petulantly.
"Because you were made and meant for each other, Anne -- that is why. You needn't toss that young head of yours. It's a fact." "Dear Anne -- spelled -- with -- an -- E," wrote Phil, "I must prop my eyelids open long enough to write you. I've neglected you shamefully this summer, honey, but all my other correspondents have been neglected, too. I have a huge pile of letters to answer, so I must gird up the loins of my mind and hoe in. Excuse my mixed metaphors. I'm fearfully sleepy. Last night Cousin Emily and I were calling at a neighbor's. There were several other callers there, and as soon as those unfortunate creatures left, our hostess and her three daughters picked them all to pieces. I knew they would begin on Cousin Emily and me as soon as the door shut behind us. When we

Johannes Vermeer girl with the pearl earring painting

Johannes Vermeer girl with the pearl earring painting
Claude Monet Girls In A Boat painting
village; yet there was something about it that made its nearest neighbor, the big lawn-encircled palace of a tobacco king, look exceedingly crude and showy and ill-bred by contrast. As Phil said, it was the difference between being born and being made.
"It's the dearest place I ever saw," said Anne delightedly. "It gives me one of my old, delightful funny aches. It's dearer and quainter than even Miss Lavendar's stone house."
"It's the name I want you to notice especially," said Phil. "Look -- in white letters, around the archway over the gate. `Patty's Place.' Isn't that killing? Especially on this Avenue of Pinehursts and Elmwolds and Cedarcrofts? `Patty's Place,' if you please! I adore it."
"Have you any idea who Patty is?" asked Priscilla.
"Patty Spofford is the name of the old lady who owns it, I've discovered. She lives there with her niece, and they've lived there for hundreds of years, more or less -- maybe a little less, Anne. Exaggeration is merely a flight of poetic fancy. I understand that wealthy folk have tried to buy the lot time and again -- it's really worth a small fortune now, you know -- but `Patty' won't sell upon any consideration. And there's an apple orchard behind the house in place of a back

William Bouguereau the first kiss painting

William Bouguereau the first kiss painting
Gustav Klimt Three Ages of Woman - Mother and Child (Detail) painting
"fun," and her home evenings were crowded with callers. She had all the "beaux" that heart could desire, for nine-tenths of the Freshmen and a big fraction of all the other classes were rivals for her smiles. She was naively delighted over this, and gleefully recounted each new conquest to Anne and Priscilla, with comments that might have made the unlucky lover's ears burn fiercely.
"Alec and Alonzo don't seem to have any serious rival yet," remarked Anne, teasingly.
"Not one," agreed Philippa. "I write them both every week and tell them all about my young men here. I'm sure it must amuse them. But, of course, the one I like best I can't get. Gilbert Blythe won't take any notice of me, except to look at me as if I were a nice little kitten he'd like to pat. Too well I know the reason. I owe you a grudge, Queen Anne. I really ought to hate you and instead I love you madly, and I'm miserable if I don't see you every day. You're different

Jeffrey T.Larson paintings

Jeffrey T.Larson paintings
Jean-Paul Laurens paintings
went to the barn. And I didn't use good enough grammar. Emily'd been a schoolteacher in her early life and she'd never got over it. Then she hated to see me eating with my knife. Well, there it was, pick and nag everlasting. But I s'pose, Anne, to be fair, I was cantankerous too. I didn't try to improve as I might have done. . .I just got cranky and disagreeable when she found fault. I told her one day she hadn't complained of my grammar when I proposed to her. It wasn't an overly tactful thing to say. A woman would forgive a man for beating her sooner than for hinting she was too much pleased to get him. Well, we bickered along like that and it wasn't exactly pleasant, but we might have got used to each other after a spell if it hadn't been for Ginger. Ginger was the rock we split on at last. Emily didn't like parrots and she couldn't stand Ginger's profane of speech. I was attached to the bird for my brother the sailor's sake. My brother the sailor was a pet of mine when we were little tads and he'd sent Ginger to me when he was dying. I didn't see any sense in getting worked up over his swearing. There's nothing I hate worse'n profanity in a human being, but in a parrot, that's just repeating what it's heard with no more understanding

Georgia O'Keeffe paintings

Georgia O'Keeffe paintings
Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger paintings
You can give him some jam on his bread, I know what tea at Levi Boulter's is apt to be."
Davy took his slice of bread and jam with a sigh.
"It's a kind of disappointing world after all," he remarked. "Milty has a cat that takes fits. . .she's took a fit regular every day for three weeks. Milty says it's awful fun to watch her. I went down today on purpose to see her have one but the mean old thing wouldn't take a fit and just kept healthy as healthy, though Milty and me hung round all the afternoon and waited. But never mind" . . .Davy brightened up as the insidious comfort of the plum jam stole into his soul. . ."maybe I'll see her in one sometime yet. It doesn't seem likely she'd stop having them all at once when she's been so in the habit of it, does it? This jam is awful nice."
Davy had no sorrows that plum jam could not cure.
Sunday proved so rainy that there was no stirring abroad; but by Monday everybody had heard some version of the Harrison story. The school buzzed with it and Davy came home, full of information.
"Marilla, Mr. Harrison has a new wife. . .well, not ezackly new, but they've stopped being

Camille Pissarro paintings

Camille Pissarro paintings
Carl Fredrik Aagard paintings
you kiss me. And of course I'll come to see you again. I think I'd like to have you for a particular friend of mine, if you don't object."
"I. . .I don't think I shall object," said Miss Lavendar. She turned and went in very quickly; but a moment later she was waving a gay and smiling good-bye to them from the window.
"I like Miss Lavendar," announced Paul, as they walked through the beech woods. "I like the way she looked at me, and I like her stone house, and I like Charlotta the Fourth. I wish Grandma Irving had a Charlotta the Fourth instead of a Mary Joe. I feel sure Charlotta the Fourth wouldn't think I was wrong in my upper story when I told her what I think about things. Wasn't that a splendid tea we had, teacher? Grandma says a boy shouldn't be thinking about what he gets to eat, but he can't help it sometimes when he is real hungry. you know, teacher. I don't think Miss Lavendar would make a boy eat porridge for breakfast if he didn't like it. She'd get things for

Decorative painting

Decorative painting
-eyed. "This is my adopted birthday, you know, and this garden and its story is the birthday gift it has given me. Did your mother ever tell you what Hester Gray looked like, Diana?"
"No. . .only just that she was pretty."
"I'm rather glad of that, because I can imagine what she looked like, without being hampered by facts. I think she was very slight and small, with softly curling dark hair and big, sweet, timid brown eyes, and a little wistful, pale face."
The girls left their baskets in Hester's garden and spent the rest of the afternoon rambling in the woods and fields surrounding it, discovering many pretty nooks and lanes. When they got hungry they had lunch in the prettiest spot of all. . .on the steep bank of a gurgling brook where white birches shot up out of long feathery grasses. The girls sat down by the roots and did full justice to Anne's dainties, even the unpoetical sandwiches being greatly appreciated by hearty, unspoiled appetites sharpened by all the fresh air and exercise they had enjoyed. Anne had

Theodore Robinson Valley of the Seine Giverny painting

Theodore Robinson Valley of the Seine Giverny painting
Martin Johnson Heade Cattelya Orchid and Three Brazilian Hummingbirds painting
In the end Davy was sent to bed, as usual, there to remain until noon next day. He evidently did some thinking, for when Anne went up to her room a little later she heard him calling her name softly. Going in, she found him sitting up in bed, with his elbows on his knees and his chin propped on his hands.
"Anne," he said solemnly, "is it wrong for everybody to tell whop. . . falsehoods? I want to know"
"Yes, indeed."
"Is it wrong for a grown-up person?"
"Yes."
"Then," said Davy decidedly, "Marilla is bad, for she tells them. And she's worse'n me, for I didn't know it was wrong but she does."
"Davy Keith, Marilla never told a story in her life," said Anne indignantly.

Michelangelo Buonarroti The Creation of Adam painting

Michelangelo Buonarroti The Creation of Adam painting
Thomas Kinkade almost heaven painting
amazement. Could that be Dora. . .that sobbing nondescript in a drenched, dripping dress and hair from which the water was streaming on Marilla's new coin-spot rug?
"Dora, what has happened to you?" cried Anne, with a guilty glance at Mrs. Jasper Bell, whose family was said to be the only one in the world in which accidents never occurred.
"Davy made me walk the pigpen fence," wailed Dora. "I didn't want to but he called me a fraid-cat. And I fell off into the pigpen and my dress got all dirty and the pig runned right over me. My dress was just awful but Davy said if I'd stand under the pump he'd wash it clean, and I did and he pumped water all over me but my dress ain't a bit cleaner and my pretty sash and shoes is all spoiled."
Anne did the honors of the table alone for the rest of the meal

Frederic Remington paintings

Frederic Remington paintings
Francisco de Goya paintings
But the Jersey cow appeared to see no good reason for being hustled out of her luscious browsing ground. No sooner had the two breathless girls got near her than she turned and bolted squarely for the opposite corner of the field.
"Head her off," screamed Anne. "Run, Diana, run."
Diana did run. Anne tried to, and the wicked Jersey went around the field as if she were possessed. Privately, Diana thought she was. It was fully ten minutes before they headed her off and drove her through the corner gap into the Cuthbert lane.
There is no denying that Anne was in anything but an angelic temper at that precise moment. Nor did it soothe her in the least to behold a buggy halted just outside the lane, wherein sat Mr. Shearer of Carmody and his son, both of whom wore a broad smile.