Henri Fantin-Latour paintings

Henri Fantin-Latour paintings
Horace Vernet paintings
Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky paintings
Il'ya Repin paintings
He laughed, and she continued: ``Was it because you told her so that she had to put you out on the way? In my youth young men didn't desert pretty women unless they were made to!'' She gave another chuckle, and interrupted it to say almost querulously: ``It's a pity she didn't marry you; I always told her so. It would have spared me all this worry. But who ever thought of sparing their grandmother worry?''
Archer wondered if her illness had blurred her faculties; but suddenly she broke out: ``Well, it's settled, anyhow: she's going to stay with me, whatever the rest of the family say! She hadn't been here five minutes before I'd have gone down on my knees to keep her -- if only, for the last twenty years, I'd been able to see where the floor was!''
Archer listened in silence, and she went on: ``They'd talked me over, as no doubt you know: persuaded me, Lovell, and Letterblair, and Augusta Welland, and all the rest of them, that I must hold out and cut off her allowance, till she was made to see that it was her duty to go back to Olenski. They thought they'd convinced me when the secretary, or whatever he was, came out with the last proposals: handsome proposals I confess