Monday, December 1, 2008

Van Gogh The Courtyard of the Hospital in Arles

Van Gogh The Courtyard of the Hospital in ArlesVan Gogh Seashore at ScheveningenVan Gogh Restaurant Rispal at AsnieresVan Gogh Peasant Man and Woman Planting Potatoes
wonder if I shall ever look down into that valley again,’ he said quietly.When they had walked for about three hours they rested. The night was clear, cool, and starry, but smoke-like wisps of mist were creeping up the hill-sides from the streams and deep meadows. Thin-clad birches, swaying in a light wind above their heads, made a black net against the pale sky. They ate a very frugal supper (for hobbits), and then went on again. Soon they struck a narrow road, that went rolling up and down, fading grey into the darkness ahead: the road to they marched on in silence, and Pippin began to lag behind. At last, as they began to climb a steep slope, he stopped and yawned.‘I am so sleepy,’ he said, ‘that soon I shall fall down on the road. Are you going to sleep on your legs? It is nearly midnight.’‘I thought you liked walking in the dark,’ said Frodo. ‘But there is no great hurry. Merry expects us some time the day after tomorrow; but that leaves us nearly two days more. We’ll halt at the first likely spot.’‘The wind’s in the West,’ said Sam. ‘If we get to the other side of this hill, we shall find a spot Woodhall, and Stock, and the Bucklebury Ferry. It climbed away from the main road in the Water-valley, and wound over the skirts of the Green Hills towards Woody-End, a wild corner of the Eastfarthing.After a while they plunged into a deeply cloven track between tall trees that rustled their dry leaves in the night. It was very dark. At first they talked, or hummed a tune softly together, being now far away from inquisitive ears. Then

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