Gustav Klimt The Virgin painting

Gustav Klimt The Virgin paintingGustav Klimt dancer paintingGustav Klimt Adam and Eve painting
hand toward a witch who was clearly shrieking in agony - "feel the Dementor's Kiss" - a wizard lying huddled and blank-eyed, slumped against a wall - "or provoke the aggression of the Inferius" - a bloody mass upon ground.
"Has an Inferius been seen, then?" said Parvati Patil in a high pitched voice. "Is it definite, is he using them?"
"The Dark Lord has used Inferi in the past," said Snape, "which means you would be well-advised to assume he might use them again. Now. . . "
He set off again around the other side of the classroom toward his desk, and again, they watched him as he walked, his dark robes billowing behind him. ,

Guido Reni Archangel Michael painting

Guido Reni Archangel Michael paintingGuido Reni The Coronation of the Virgin paintingGuido Reni Girl with a Rose painting
wait," she said resentfully. "I bet Snape gives us loads."
The classroom door opened as she spoke, and Snape stepped into the corridor, his sallow face framed as ever by two curtains of greasy black hair. Silence fell over the queue immediately.
"Inside," he said.
Harry looked around as they entered. Snape had imposed his personality upon the room already; it was gloomier than usual, as curtains had been drawn over the windows, and was lit by candlelight. New pictures adorned the walls, many of them showing people who appeared to be in pain, sporting grisly injuries or strangely contorted body parts. Nobody spoke as they settled down, looking around at the shadowy, gruesome pictures.

Francois Boucher Madame de Pompadour painting

Francois Boucher Madame de Pompadour painting
Francois Boucher Adoration of the Shepherds painting
be planning to ambush you on the thirtieth, but he'd be mad not to have a Death Eater or two keeping an eye out, it's what I'd do. They might not be able to get at you or this house while your mother's charm holds, but it's about to break and they know the rough position of the place. Our only chance is to use decoys. Even You-Know-Who can't split himself into seven."

Harry caught Hermione's eye and looked away at once.

"So, Potter – some of your hair, if you please."

Harry glanced at Ron, who grimaced at him in a just-do-it sort of way.

"Now!" barked Moody.

Salvador Dali The Rose painting

Salvador Dali The Rose painting
Salvador Dali The Persistence of Memory painting
　Everybody motioned their heads. "Hold tight now, Ron," said Tonks, and Harry saw Ron throw a forcing, guilty look at Lupin before placing his hands on each side of her waist. Hagrid kicked the motorbike into life: It roared like a dragon, and the sidecar began to vibrate.

　　　"Good luck, everyone," shouted Moody. "See you all in about an hour at the Burrow. On the count of three. One … two .. THREE."

　　　There was a great roar from the motorbike, and Harry felt the sidecar give a nasty lurch. He was rising through the air fast, his eyes watering slightly, hair whipped back off his face. Around him brooms were soaring upward too; the long black tail of a thestral flicked past. His legs, jammed into the sidecar by Hedwig's cage and his rucksack, were already sore and starting to go numb. So great was his discomfort that he almost forgot to take a last glimpse of number four Privet Drive. By the time he looked over the edge of the sidecar he could no longer tell which one it was.

Edward Hopper Nighthawks painting

Edward Hopper Nighthawks painting
Frederic Edwin Church Sunset painting
the donor common hepatic artery and recipient common hepatic artery. In the stent technique, the recipient hepatic artery and donor hepatic artery were connected using an intraluminal polyethylene stent. The arterial anastomosis time and arterial patency rate in each group were recorded. The liver graft survival and bile duct complication rates were measured.Results The total surgical time of OLT with rearterialization was (118.3±12.9) minutes in the sleeve group, (106.2±11.6) minutes in the cuff, (93.8±10.2) minutes in the stent, and (88.2±9.6) minutes in the control. The corresponding anhepatic phase was (19.6±2.8), (19.2±2.2), (18.6±1.8), and (20.0±2.5) minutes respectively in the sleeve, cuff, stent, and control groups. One-week survival rate was 86.5% in the control, and 86.7% in the groups with rearterialization. No significant difference was detected in

Pablo Picasso The Old Guitarist painting

Pablo Picasso The Old Guitarist painting
Pablo Picasso Girl Before a Mirror painting
native of Mineola, New York, Mr. Gerstner received a bachelor's degree in engineering from Dartmouth College in 1963 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1965. In 1994 he was awarded an honorary doctorate of business administration from Boston College, in 1997 honorary doctorate of laws from both Wake Forest University and Brown University, and in 1999 an honorary doctorate of engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 1999 Mr. Gerstner was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and in April 2000 a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Mr. Gerstner is a director of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. He is vice chairman of the board of managers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer

Edgar Degas Ballet Rehearsal painting

Edgar Degas Ballet Rehearsal painting
Edgar Degas Absinthe painting
The Odds of Family Misfortune Attention from the media can make some tragedies seem outsized.With the fatal crash of John Kennedy Jr.'s plane off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, talk arises once again of a Kennedy family curse. This resort to mysticism seems a common response to the Kennedy tragedies. How likely is it that all the misfortunes we've read about should befall a single family? How do we attach a clear meaning, much less a numerical probability, to such a nebulously defined notion as "an excessive amount of family tragedy?" The singular nature of the Kennedy family and its role in American life make such comparisons especially dubious.

Thomas Kinkade A Peaceful Retreat painting

Thomas Kinkade A Peaceful Retreat painting
John Collier Lady Godiva painting
AOL by Phone will be free until Jan. 31 at which point it will become a premium service and users will be able to use it for $4.95 a month. The launch coincides with the unveiling of AOL's latest upgrade of the software for its Internet service. AOL 6.0. focuses on supporting high-speed data access and services and the company's move to build on its "AOL Anywhere" strategy, which aims to let users access AOL services from a variety of devices beyond the computer. The new products come as AOL waits for regulatory approval for its purchase of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) Negotiations between the government and the companies has been extended for two weeks, sources close to the talks said Tuesday. Neither side appeared pessimistic or seemed on a collision course over the deal, the sources said.

Pierre Auguste Renoir Two Sisters (On the Terrace) painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir Two Sisters (On the Terrace) painting
Pierre Auguste Renoir The Umbrellas painting
problems would linger into 2001, pushing its revenues down 7 percent and wiping out any hopes of a profit in the first fiscal quarter ending Dec. 31. Analysts had expected the company to post a profit of 23 cents a share in the first quarter, compared with 33 cents a year ago. Lucent expects results from operations will improve sequentially each quarter for the rest of fiscal 2001, but it did not provide specifics. Lucent also warned that it does not expect a significant increase in sales of its optical products. It weak performance comes even as the rest of the industry has experienced the biggest boom in demand for optical and data networking equipment. Some analysts speculated that Lucent had lower sales to key customers such as its former parent company AT&T Corp., which may have turned to other manufacturers.

Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Smile painting

Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Smile painting
Rembrandt The Return of the Prodigal Son painting
Most of the frames need to find a home near an electrical outlet. Several portable frames such as VideoChip Technologies' $349 Photo Wallet and the $340 Digi-Frame 390 are battery-powered, but their small picture areas make them better suited for the road than for the living room or office.The cyber frames, which come with a built-in modem, are probably the most user-friendly. Once you're set up with service, the devices do the work for you.But required monthly subscription fees that let you upload, store and download pictures online can add up. The fees range anywhere from $50 to $120 a year and cover features from photo editing tools to print services. Expect premium services to cost extra. Unfortunately, there appears to be no cap on what these fees can cost, and if the company goes out of business or stops providing service, you'll have a very nice frame which won't be able to display much

George Frederick Watts Love And Life painting

George Frederick Watts Love And Life painting
Frederic Edwin Church North Lake painting
The most recent, in Honolulu in November 1999, also left seven dead. Others included July 1999 shootings that left nine dead at two Atlanta brokerages, August 1999 shootings that left three people dead at two office buildings in Pelham, Alabama, and in Garden Grove, California, that same month when a man opened fire in an auto parts store killing two people.Shirley Singleton, Edgewater's chief executive, released a statement confirming the shootings and vowing to help police."Everyone at Edgewater Technology is shocked and devastated by the loss of our friends," the statement said in part and added, "We extend our deepest sympathies to the victims' families at this tragic time."Started as a private Internet commerce software firm outside Boston in 1992, Edgewater Technologies was purchased by a large publicly traded temporary staffing company, StaffMark Inc. of Fayetteville, Arkansas, in May 1999.

William Etty paintings

William Etty paintings
William Merritt Chase paintings
the mood on Capitol Hill remained charged as Senate confirmation hearings for former Missouri Sen. John Ashcroft stretched into a third day and the black judge whose nomination to the federal bench Ashcroft blocked prepared to testify. Missouri Supreme Court Justice Ronnie White on Thursday will discuss what he and others contend was Ashcroft's unfair characterization of him as "pro-criminal" in 1999 when Ashcroft helped deny him a spot on the federal bench. Bush shrugged off the fierce rhetoric about Ashcroft, telling ABC's Barbara Walters in excerpts of an interview aired on Wednesday, "I know there's a lot of people out there hollering, mainly voices of special interests in Washington. ... They're paid to create noise and emotion."

City painting

City painting
Cottage painting

An Amtrak train derailment in southern Iowa left one person dead and another 90 people injured, but officials say it came very being much, much worse.
Amtrak's Number Five from Chicago was en route to Emeryville, Calif., near Oakland, when the accident occurred in in a remote area of southern Iowa late Saturday night.The California Zephyr passenger train was traveling about 50 mph at the time, but it was scheduled to be doing nearly 80 mph along that section of track. The engineer had slowed because of trouble with the whistle system at rail crossings. The derailment occurred near Nodaway, Iowa, a small, rural town approximately 70 miles from the train's next stop in Omaha, Neb. It is possible that as many as nine cars came off the tracks. One of the train's cars was found turned upside down, according to Larry Drew, police chief of Corning, Iowa.The train was carrying 195 passengers and 15 crewmembers.

Arthur Hughes paintings

Arthur Hughes paintings
Albert Bierstadt paintings
existing tax system exempts vehicles with a seating capacity of 10, classified as Asian utility vehicles (AUVs). The alleged controversy surrounding the tax issue, however, was settled with a ruling that four-wheel drives cannot avail of the exemption. But an argument cropped up that newly manufactured AUVs (Asian utility vehicles no longer serve the purpose of giving a break for entrepreneurs who use it for transporting goods and people. Against this backdrop, Romulo disclosed the DOF is now looking at the possibility, based on the proposal of the private sector, that all AUVs be subjected to the same amount of tax. But those who will register the vehicle as a public utility vehicle be given a tax rebate, he added. AUVs, which has been in fashion for more than three years now include

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Ingres The Source painting

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Ingres The Source painting
Michelangelo Buonarroti The Creation of Adam painting
Washington-based consumer group, says regions with a heavy dependency on nuclear power often see higher electricity prices — precisely because nuclear plants are so expensive to build in the first place.According to Department of Energy statistics, electricity providers in Illinois, for instance, had revenues of 8.8 cents per kilowatt hour, while their counterparts in Kentucky, which is almost entirely dependent on coal-fueled power plants, averaged revenues of 5.3 cents per kilowatt hour."Under deregulation, we've scrapped this cost-based rate structure," says Slocum. "There's a lack of public accountability of energy companies."And that's not even allowing for the main issue environmentalists still have with nuclear power: disposing of the 45,000 tons of nuclear waste that have been generated in the last 30 years.

Steve Hanks Interior View painting

Steve Hanks Interior View painting
Eric Wallis Draped Room painting
That kind of attitude has Ford Motor Co. executives both apologizing to car owners and continuing to place the blame for the situation squarely on Firestone, saying the replacement of 13 million tires was necessary because of safety problems."I'm extremely sorry for the inconvenience this is causing our customers," Ford President and Chief Executive Jacques Nasser told a news conference late this afternoon, "but every decision we make is going to be driven by the concern for our customers' safety."Nasser called the decision to replace the tires "precautionary and preventive," but also said it came about because Ford "lacked confidence in the future performance of many of the Firestone Wilderness tires." 2 Million Owners Affected

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida El bano del caballo [The Horse's Bath] painting

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida El bano del caballo [The Horse's Bath] painting
John William Waterhouse Gather ye rosebuds while ye may painting

The magic of sunlight filtering through the trees, the soothing sounds of a mountain stream, and the beauty of nature are not just great seasonal therapy for adults. Kid's too can benefit from a hearty walk in the wilds.
Parents know exercise and fresh air are good for children's growing bodies — especially today, when statistics show that American children are increasingly overweight, partly due to lack of exercise. Communing with nature is also good for their souls, scientists say. Research suggests that children learn more when exposed to natural light and the lack of such light has been cited as a possible factor of attention deficit disorder. Curiosity and Wonderment Among the believers in outdoor therapy is the Freedman family, who use the

Thomas Kinkade paintings

Thomas Kinkade paintings
Thomas Stiltz paintings
entire tectonic plate off the coast of the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia. The Juan de Fuca Plate is smaller than most tectonic plates, the huge chunks of the Earth's crust that move slowly about the planet. But its subduction under the North American continental plate causes earthquakes and volcanoes along much of the Pacific Northwest.An undersea robot that operates somewhat like the lunar lander that carried astronauts to the surface of the moon is being used to study the impact of oil drilling operations on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico.The U.S. Coast Guard's newest icebreaker is on its maiden voyage, and its first challenge is a dandy. The 420-foot Healy will follow the famed Northwest Passage through the Arctic Ocean while attempting to collect rock samples from the ocean floor.

Edward Hopper paintings

Edward Hopper paintings
Edgar Degas paintings
persuaded Leslie and her husband that this new chip technology would be the wave of the future. And after looking into the technology, she believes that her son was right. "I really think this could help make the world safer in the future," she says.Chipping BlocksBut making the world safer or allowing missing children to be found easily won't happen anytime soon. In addition to waiting for FDA approval — a process that may take years — some experts point to many other obstacles that would need to be cleared.Most embedded chip designs, such as ADS's VeriChip, are so-called passive chips which yield information only when scanned by a nearby reader. But active chips — such as the proposed Digital Angel of the future — will need to beam

Nude painting

Nude painting
Oriental paintings
Match facts　　Belgium came out quickly, and Mbo Mpenza lofted a shot confidently from 25 yards out that forced Marcos to tip over (1’). Then Yves Vanderhaeghe hit a speculative shot, which was off target but rolled agonizingly through the Brazilian area (5’).　　Juninho Paulista had Brazil’s first good chance, but his curling shot from the edge of the box eased around the right post (6’).　　Following some fine build-up, Ronaldinho drove the ball to the top of the Belgian box and fed it to an unmarked Ronaldo. The striker had time and space, but his shot just failed to curl into the top right corner (19’).　　Ronaldo beat a player down the left to set up Rivaldo well, but the forward blasted an unnecessarily acrobatic overhead kick (23’) well

Angel painting

Angel painting
animal paintings
Nobody's going to remember what we've done up to this point if we don't get the job done in the next two nights," he said. "You can't say we've been dominant. We're on our way, but we're not there yet." Johnson, who played in Spain in 2000 and last year, credited Swoopes with neutralizing Valdemoro. "I played with Amaya this past year over there so I know exactly what she can do," Johnson said. "She's a great player, she's one of the top players in Spain, so you know you've got to respect her." The unbeaten Americans put together a strong offensive and defensive showing and appear to be growing more comfortable together. "We've only been together for a short time, so you're talking about 12 players who do different things ... and then turning around to form

Steve Hanks Silver Strand painting

Steve Hanks Silver Strand painting
Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Painting painting

Lance Armstrong rode into history, winning a record sixth Tour de France and cementing his place as one of the greatest athletes of all time. Never in its 101-year history has the Tour had a winner...
Lance Armstrong rode into history, winning a record sixth Tour de France and cementing his place as one of the greatest athletes of all time. Never in its 101-year history has the Tour had a winner like Armstrong — who just eight years ago suffered from severe cancer that spread to his lungs and brain. No. 6: The achievement was almost too much for even Armstrong to comprehend. "It might take years. I don't know. It hasn't sunk in yet. But six, standing on the top step on the podium on the Champs-Elysees is really special," he said. President Bush called soon after his fellow Texan crossed the finish line. "You're awesome," Bush told him.

Frida Kahlo Roots painting

Frida Kahlo Roots painting
Pablo Picasso Family at Saltimbanquesc painting

Visitors can experience a special insider's view of the engineering marvel in New York, that is The Statue of Liberty. It's the first time since September 11, 2001 that tourists are allowed ...
Visitors can experience a special insider's view of the engineering marvel in New York, that is The Statue of Liberty. It's the first time since September 11, 2001 that tourists are allowed inside the statue.Statue of Liberty was a gift of international friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States in 1886 and is one of the most universal symbols of political freedom and democracy.The statue and Liberty Island were closed after Sept. 11; although the island reopened to the public two months later, the statue remained off-limits.

Edwin Austin Abbey paintings

Edwin Austin Abbey paintings
Edward Hopper paintings
the father of a missing 8-year-old found her bloodied body in a ravine, next to her lifeless best friend, it seemed every parent's worst nightmare. Jerry Hobbs, just out of prison a few weeks, led police to the girls himself. They wanted to know how he found them. They kept asking him questions. Finally, after hours of being interviewed, Hobbs was charged with both murders, a crime that stunned this small city near the Wisconsin line.Hobbs' 8-year-old daughter, Laura Hobbs, and her friend Krystal Tobias, 9, were found dead Monday. Both girls had been beaten and stabbed multiple times and then left to die in the woods on Mother's Day.Waller would not discuss possible motives for the killings but said details would come out when Hobbs appeared at a bond hearing Wednesday. He said he couldn't comment on whether Hobbs confessed.

Famous painting

Famous painting
card into my shorts. Somehow, I extricated the card, slowed my pace to let her get just slightly ahead of me, put the towel on the sand, dropped to my knee, and called her name. When she spun around, I was holding the card out to her. At that moment, she probably sensed that this was it. Inside the card was a poem I had written -- six verses about us and love. The last line was, "Will you marry me?" When she looked up from the card -- with tears streaming down her face -- I presented the ring. By now it was pitch black on the beach, so, with Amanda still crying, we ran up the beach toward a porch light for a better look. Apparently, she liked what she saw. We were married ten months later. Romeo #5:I took Donna to New Orleans for her 29th birthday. She knew I planned to propose there, so my challenge was to do it in an unexpected way. I made dinner reservations at Galatoire's, one of the most famous restaurants in the

Eduard Manet Two Roses On A Tablecloth painting

Eduard Manet Two Roses On A Tablecloth painting
Stephen Gjertson The Anniversary painting
I know your problems, Bihe.” Her voice was near to whispering, but it cleared the doubts in my heart. “You should know, not a single individual in this world is perfect. It is true there are many people more outstanding than you at present, but if you constantly compare yourself with them, then you will get lost in your own life.”
Waiting for me to understand the meanings of what she said, Mrs. Carmelita watched my face with a kind smile. As I nodded my head uncertainly, she patted on my shoulders and said in a much louder voice, “Actually, you are not as unworthy as you deem yourself. To me, you are hardworking and honest. These are your possessions which others can’t deprive you of. Now, you are in urgent need of confidence. So, listen to me, never compare yourself with others. If no one can see your values, I will.”
My mouth was open to amazement as Mrs. Carmelita declared the end of our lesson, and led me to the door of the classroom. First time in my life, I felt myself worthy to praise of. As I walked back home with my teacher’s voice still wandering in my ears, I couldn’t stop feeling a seed sprouting in my heart. It’s a seed of confidence, a seed of self approval. From that time, I finally found the sunshine of my life. I began to trust myself.
The seed finally grew into a tree. Now, as I make speeches in front of the whole school, as I am elected as the class leader due to my excellence, I will always look retrospectively into the past, especially the lesson I was given by Mrs. Carmelita. Even if my life is not worthy to be compared with the radiance of the stars, I will still be glad to thank my old teacher, for the valuable lesson in my life.

Carl Fredrik Aagard paintings

Carl Fredrik Aagard paintings
Caravaggio paintings
climate may do away with this difficulty for you. Is he alone there?’ ‘Yes,’ answered the manager; ‘he sent his assistant down the river with a note to me in these terms: “Clear this poor devil out of the country, and don’t bother sending more of that sort. I had rather be alone than have the kind of men you can dispose of with me.” It was more than a year ago. Can you imagine such impudence!’ ‘Anything since then?’ asked the other hoarsely. ‘Ivory,’ jerked the nephew; ‘lots of it - prime sort - lots - most annoying, from him.’ ‘And with that?’ questioned the heavy rumble. ‘Invoice,’ was the reply fired out, so to speak. Then silence. They had been talking about Kurtz.
“I was broad awake by this time, but, lying perfectly at ease, remained still, having no inducement to change my position. ‘How did that ivory come all this way?’ growled the elder man, who seemed very vexed. The other explained that it had come with a fleet of canoes in charge of an English half-caste clerk Kurtz had with him; that Kurtz had apparently intended to return himself, the station being by that time bare of goods and stores, but after coming three hundred miles, had suddenly decided to go back, which he started to do alone in a small dugout with four paddlers, leaving the half-caste to continue down the river with the ivory. The two fellows there seemed astounded

Gustav Klimt Death and Life painting

Gustav Klimt Death and Life painting
Alexandre Cabanel Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners painting
sudden outbreak of a virulent type of influenza at the Glen and down at the fishing village kept Gilbert so busy for the next fortnight that he had no time to pay the promised visit to Captain Jim. Anne hoped against hope that he had abandoned the idea about Dick Moore, and, resolving to let sleeping dogs lie, she said no more about the subject. But she thought of it incessantly.
"I wonder if it would be right for me to tell him that Leslie cares for Owen," she thought. "He would never let her suspect that he knew, so her pride would not suffer, and it might convince him that he should let Dick Moore alone. Shall I--shall I? No, after all, I cannot. A promise is sacred, and I've no right to betray Leslie's secret. But oh, I never felt so worried over anything in my life as I do over this. It's spoiling the spring--it's spoiling everything."
One evening Gilbert abruptly proposed that they go down and see Captain Jim. With a sinking heart Anne agreed, and they set forth. Two weeks of kind sunshine had wrought a miracle in the

Claude Monet Winter At Giverny painting

Claude Monet Winter At Giverny painting
Claude Monet Train In The Country painting
Gilbert!" Anne's voice was full of protest. "Surely you don't mean it!"
"I do, indeed. And I have decided that it is my duty to broach the subject to Leslie."
"Gilbert Blythe, you shall not do any such thing," cried Anne vehemently. "Oh, Gilbert, you won't--you won't. You couldn't be so cruel. Promise me you won't."
"Why, Anne-girl, I didn't suppose you would take it like this. Be reasonable--"
"I won't be reasonable--I can't be reasonable--I am reasonable. It is you who are unreasonable. Gilbert, have you ever once thought what it would mean for Leslie if Dick Moore were to be restored to his right senses? Just stop and think! She's unhappy enough now; but life as Dick's nurse and attendant is a thousand times easier for her than life as Dick's wife. I know--I know! It's unthinkable. Don't you meddle with the matter. Leave well enough alone."
"I have thought over that aspect of the case thoroughly, Anne. But

Tamara de Lempicka Adam and Eve painting

Tamara de Lempicka Adam and Eve painting
Claude Monet The Road To Chailly painting
Winter set in vigorously after New Year's. Big, white drifts heaped themselves about the little house, and palms of frost covered its windows. The harbor ice grew harder and thicker, until the Four Winds people began their usual winter travelling over it. The safe ways were "bushed" by a benevolent Government, and night and day the gay tinkle of the sleigh-bells sounded on it. On moonlit nights Anne heard them in her house of dreams like fairy chimes. The gulf froze over, and the Four Winds light flashed no more. During the months when navigation was closed Captain Jim's office was a sinecure.
"The First Mate and I will have nothing to do till spring except keep warm and amuse ourselves. The last lighthouse keeper used always to move up to the Glen in winter; but I'd rather stay at the Point. The First Mate might get poisoned or chewed up by dogs at the Glen. It's a mite lonely, to be sure, with neither the light nor the water for company, but if our friends come to see us often we'll weather it through."

Montague Dawson paintings

Montague Dawson paintings
Mary Cassatt paintings
quoted Anne softly. The gable window gave a view of a little harvest-hued valley through which a brook ran. Half a mile up the brook was the only house in sight--an old, rambling, gray one surrounded by huge willows through which its windows peered, like shy, seeking eyes, into the dusk. Anne wondered who lived there; they would be her nearest neighbors and she hoped they would be nice. She suddenly found herself thinking of the beautiful girl with the white geese.
"Gilbert thought she didn't belong here," mused Anne, "but I feel sure she does. There was something about her that made her part of the sea and the sky and the harbor. Four Winds is in her blood."
When Anne went downstairs Gilbert was standing before the fireplace talking to a stranger. Both turned as Anne entered.
"Anne, this is Captain Boyd. Captain Boyd, my wife."

Jeffrey T.Larson paintings

Jeffrey T.Larson paintings
Jean-Paul Laurens paintings
They were married in the sunshine of the old orchard, circled by the loving and kindly faces of long-familiar friends. Mr. Allan married them, and the Reverend Jo made what Mrs. Rachel Lynde afterwards pronounced to be the "most beautiful wedding prayer" she had ever heard. Birds do not often sing in September, but one sang sweetly from some hidden bough while Gilbert and Anne repeated their deathless vows. Anne heard it and thrilled to it; Gilbert heard it, and wondered only that all the birds in the world had not burst into jubilant song; Paul heard it and later wrote a lyric about it which was one of the most admired in his first volume of verse; Charlotta the Fourth heard it and was blissfully sure it meant good luck for her adored Miss Shirley. The bird sang until the ceremony was ended and then it wound up with one mad little, glad little trill. Never had the old gray-green house among its enfolding orchards known a blither, merrier afternoon. All the old jests and quips that must have done duty at weddings since Eden were served up, and seemed as new and brilliant and mirth-provoking as if they had never been uttered

Frederic Edwin Church paintings

Frederic Edwin Church paintings
Frederic Remington paintings
Oh, yes, I go often. Miss Patty and Miss Maria still sit by the fireplace and knit. And that reminds me--we've brought you a wedding gift from them, Anne. Guess what it is."
"I never could. How did they know I was going to be married?"
"Oh, I told them. I was there last week. And they were so interested. Two days ago Miss Patty wrote me a note asking me to call; and then she asked if I would take her gift to you. What would you wish most from Patty's Place, Anne?"
"You can't mean that Miss Patty has sent me her china dogs?"
"Go up head. They're in my trunk this very moment. And I've a letter for you. Wait a moment and I'll get it."
"Dear Miss Shirley," Miss Patty had written, "Maria and I were very much interested in hearing of your approaching nuptials. We send you our best wishes. Maria and I have never married, but we have no objection to other people doing so. We are sending you the china dogs. I intended to leave

Andreas Achenbach paintings

Andreas Achenbach paintings
Alphonse Maria Mucha paintings
marry him, and be told every week by some busybody that your engagement was on the point of being announced. I believed it until one blessed day when I was sitting up after the fever. I got a letter from Phil Gordon -- Phil Blake, rather -- in which she told me there was really nothing between you and Roy, and advised me to `try again.' Well, the doctor was amazed at my rapid recovery after that."
Anne laughed -- then shivered.
"I can never forget the night I thought you were dying, Gilbert. Oh, I knew -- I KNEW then -- and I thought it was too late."
"But it wasn't, sweetheart. Oh, Anne, this makes up for everything, doesn't it? Let's resolve to keep this day sacred to perfect beauty all our lives for the gift it has given us."
"It's the birthday of our happiness," said Anne softly. "I've always loved this

Pierre Auguste Renoir La Moulin de la Galette painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir La Moulin de la Galette painting
Guan zeju Reflecting painting
Hiram Sloane had handed her out an envelope addressed in Gilbert's black, upright handwriting. Anne had hurried home to the east gable and opened it eagerly -- to find a typewritten copy of some college society report -- "only that and nothing more." Anne flung the harmless screed across her room and sat down to write an especially nice epistle to Roy.
Diana was to be married in five more days. The gray house at Orchard Slope was in a turmoil of baking and brewing and boiling and stewing, for there was to be a big, old-timey wedding. Anne, of course, was to be bridesmaid, as had been arranged when they were twelve years old, and Gilbert was coming from Kingsport to be best man. Anne was enjoying the excitement of the various preparations, but under it all she carried a little heartache. She was, in a sense, losing her dear old chum; Diana's new home would be two miles from Green Gables, and the old constant companionship could never be theirs again. Anne looked up at Diana's light and thought how it had beaconed to her for many years; but soon it would shine through the summer twilights no more. Two big, painful tears welled up in her gray eyes.
"Oh," she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to

Gustav Klimt Beethoven Frieze painting

Gustav Klimt Beethoven Frieze painting
Eduard Manet Flowers In A Crystal Vase painting
tall girl, with large dark-blue eyes, ivory outlines, and a gloss of darkness on her smooth hair.
"She looks just as I've always wanted to look," thought Anne miserably. "Rose-leaf complexion -- starry violet eyes -- raven hair -- yes, she has them all. It's a wonder her name isn't Cordelia Fitzgerald into the bargain! But I don't believe her figure is as good as mine, and her nose certainly isn't."
Anne felt a little comforted by this conclusion.March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
Over the girls at Patty's Place was falling the shadow of April examinations. They were studying hard; even Phil had settled down to text and notebooks with a doggedness not to be expected of her.
"I'm going to take the Johnson Scholarship in Mathematics," she announced calmly. "I could take the one in Greek easily, but I'd rather take the mathematical one because I want to prove to Jonas that I'm really enormously clever."

Claude Monet Water Lily Pond painting

Claude Monet Water Lily Pond painting
Pino Desire painting
Paul spent his first fortnight with his grandmother Irving in Avonlea. Anne was there to meet him when he came, and found him wild with eagerness to get to the shore -- Nora and the Golden Lady and the Twin Sailors would be there. He could hardly wait to eat his supper. Could he not see Nora's elfin face peering around the point, watching for him wistfully? But it was a very sober Paul who came back from the shore in the twilight.
"Didn't you find your Rock People?" asked Anne.
Paul shook his chestnut curls sorrowfully.
"The Twin Sailors and the Golden Lady never came at all," he said. "Nora was there -- but Nora is not the same, teacher. She is changed."
"Oh, Paul, it is you who are changed," said Anne. "You have grown too old for the Rock People. They like only children for playfellows. I am afraid the Twin Sailors will never again come to you in the pearly, enchanted boat with the sail of moonshine; and the Golden Lady will play no more for you on her golden harp. Even Nora will not meet you much longer. You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you."

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Gustav Klimt The Friends painting
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pretty comfortable that we admit it. Come -- the others have got to the pavilion and are beckoning to us."
They all sat down in the little pavilion to watch an autumn sunset of deep red fire and pallid gold. To their left lay Kingsport, its roofs and spires dim in their shroud of violet smoke. To their right lay the harbor, taking on tints of rose and copper as it stretched out into the sunset. Before them the water shimmered, satin smooth and silver gray, and beyond, clean shaven William's Island loomed out of the mist, guarding the town like a sturdy bulldog. Its lighthouse beacon flared through the mist like a baleful star, and was answered by another in the far horizon.
"Did you ever see such a strong-looking place?" asked Philippa. "I don't want William's Island especially, but I'm sure I couldn't get it if I did. Look at that sentry on the summit of the fort, right beside the flag. Doesn't he look as if he had stepped out of a romance?"
"Speaking of romance," said Priscilla, "we've been looking for heather -- but, of course, we

Pablo Picasso The Old Guitarist painting

Pablo Picasso The Old Guitarist painting
Steve Hanks Forever a Mystery painting
letter. But she told Anne how many yards of lace she had recently crocheted, and the kind of weather they were having in Avonlea, and how she intended to have her new dress made, and the way she felt when her head ached. Ruby Gillis wrote a gushing epistle deploring Anne's absence, assuring her she was horribly missed in everything, asking what the Redmond "fellows" were like, and filling the rest with accounts of her own harrowing experiences with her numerous admirers. It was a silly, harmless letter, and Anne would have laughed over it had it not been for the postscript. "Gilbert seems to be enjoying Redmond, judging from his letters," wrote Ruby. "I don't think Charlie is so stuck on it."
So Gilbert was writing to Ruby! Very well. He had a perfect right to, of course. Only -- !! Anne did not know that Ruby had written the first letter and that Gilbert had answered it from mere courtesy. She tossed Ruby's letter aside contemptuously. But it took all Diana's breezy, newsy, delightful epistle to banish the sting of Ruby's postscript. Diana's letter contained a little too much Fred, but was otherwise crowded and crossed with items of interest, and Anne almost felt

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Juarez Machado paintings
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didn't pretend I was. If anybody'd have asked me if I was married I'd have said I was. But they just took it for granted. I wasn't anxious to talk about the matter. . .I was feeling too sore over it. It would have been nuts for Mrs. Rachel Lynde if she had known my wife had left me, wouldn't it now?"
"But some people say that you left her."
"She started it, Anne, she started it. I'm going to tell you the whole story, for I don't want you to think worse of me than I deserve. . .nor of Emily neither. But let's go out on the veranda. Everything is so fearful neat in here that it kind of makes me homesick. I suppose I'll get used to it after awhile but it eases me up to look at the yard. Emily hasn't had time to tidy it up yet."
As soon as they were comfortably seated on the veranda Mr. Harrison began his tale of woe.
"I lived in Scottsford, New Brunswick, before I came here, Anne. My sister kept house

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Edgar Degas paintings
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knocked over the kitchen chimbly and come down the flue and knocked over Ginger's cage and tore a hole in the floor and went into the sullar. Yas'm."
"Was Ginger hurt?" queried Anne.
"Yas'm. He was hurt pretty bad. He was killed." Later on Anne went over to comfort Mr. Harrison. She found him sitting by the table, stroking Ginger's gay dead body with a trembling hand.
"Poor Ginger won't call you any more names, Anne," he said mournfully.
Anne could never have imagined herself crying on Ginger's account, but the tears came into her eyes.
"He was all the company I had, Anne. . .and now he's dead. Well, well, I'm an old fool to care so much. I'll let on I don't care. I know you're going to say something sympathetic as soon as I stop talking. . .but don't. If you did I'd cry like a baby. Hasn't this been a terrible storm? I guess

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Theodore Robinson paintings
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and yellow for you."
"You do spoil that boy dreadfully," said Marilla, when Davy, with a radiant face, had followed prim Dora out. Marilla's education had made great strides in the past six years; but she had not yet been able to rid herself of the idea that it was very bad for a child to have too many of its wishes indulged.
"All the boys of his class have Indian headdresses, and Davy wants one too," said Anne. "I know how it feels. . .I'll never forget how I used to long for puffed sleeves when all the other girls had them. And Davy isn't being spoiled. He is improving every day. Think what a difference there is in him since he came here a year ago."
"He certainly doesn't get into as much mischief since he began to go to school," acknowledged Marilla. "I suppose he works off the tendency with the other boys. But it's a wonder

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wholesale oil painting
tactfully approached by a carefully selected committee in regard to the old house on his upper farm, did bluntly tell them that he wasn't going to have it meddled with.
At this especial meeting they intended to draw up a petition to the school trustees, humbly praying that a fence be put around the school grounds; and a plan was also to be discussed for planting a few ornamental trees by the church, if the funds of the society would permit of it. . .for, as Anne said, there was no use in starting another subscription as long as the hall remained blue. The members were assembled in the Andrews' parlor and Jane was already on her feet to move the appointment of a committee which should find out and report on the price of said trees, when Gertie Pye swept in, pompadoured and frilled within an inch of her life. Gertie had a habit of being late. . ."to make her entrance more effective," spiteful people said. Gertie's entrance in

Francisco de Goya Nude Maja painting

Francisco de Goya Nude Maja painting
Berthe Morisot Boats on the Seine painting
could do things without making a muddle of them. Mr. Major Spencer sent them word that he would clean out all the stumps along the road front of his farm and seed it down with grass at his own expense; and Mrs. Hiram Sloane called at the school one day and beckoned Anne mysteriously out into the porch to tell her that if the "Sassiety" wanted to make a geranium bed at the crossroads in the spring they needn't be afraid of her cow, for she would see that the marauding animal was kept within safe bounds. Even Mr. Harrison chuckled, if he chuckled at all, in private, and was all sympathy outwardly.
"Never mind, Anne. Most paints fade uglier every year but that blue is as ugly as it can be to begin with, so it's bound to fade prettier. And the roof is shingled and painted all right. Folks will be able to sit in the hall after this without being leaked on. You've accomplished so much anyhow."
"But Avonlea's blue hall will be a byword in all the neighboring settlements from this time out," said Anne bitterly.
And it must be confessed that it was.

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Guan zeju Reflecting painting
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The roof will be dark red, of course. Mr. Roger Pye is going to get the paint in town today."
"Who's got the job?"
"Mr. Joshua Pye of Carmody. He has nearly finished the shingling. We had to give him the contract, for every one of the Pyes. . . and there are four families, you know. . .said they wouldn't give a cent unless Joshua got it. They had subscribed twelve dollars between them and we thought that was too much to lose, although some people think we shouldn't have given in to the Pyes. Mrs. Lynde says they try to run everything."
"The main question is will this Joshua do his work well. If he does I don't see that it matters whether his name is Pye or Pudding."
"He has the reputation of being a good workman, though they say he's a very peculiar

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Caravaggio paintings
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I'd rather have red hair than none at all, except a little fringe round my ears," she flashed.
The shot told, for Mr. Harrison was really very sensitive about his bald head. His anger choked him up again and he could only glare speechlessly at Anne, who recovered her temper and followed up her advantage.
"I can make allowance for you, Mr. Harrison, because I have an imagination. I can easily imagine how very trying it must be to find a cow in your oats and I shall not cherish any hard feelings against you for the things you've said. I promise you that Dolly shall never break into your oats again. I give you my word of honor on that point."
"Well, mind you she doesn't," muttered Mr. Harrison in a somewhat subdued tone; but he stamped off angrily enough and Anne heard him growling to himself until he was out of earshot.
Grievously disturbed in mind, Anne marched across the yard and shut the naughty Jersey up in the milking pen.
"She can't possibly get out of that unless she tears the fence down," she reflected. "She looks pretty quiet now. I