Edward Hopper Corn Hill Truro Cape Cod painting

Edward Hopper Corn Hill Truro Cape Cod paintingEdward Hopper Cape Cod Morning paintingAmedeo Modigliani the Reclining Nude painting
"Well," said Hermione, "I thought he sounded a bit like you."
"Like me?"
"Yes, when you were telling us what it's like to face Voldemort. You said it wasn't just memorizing a bunch of spells, you said it was just you and your brains and your guts - well, wasn't that what Snape was saying? That it really comes down to being brave and quick-thinking?"
Harry was so disarmed that she had thought his words as well worth memorizing as The Standard Book of Spells that he did not argue.
"Harry! Hey, Harry!"
Harry looked around; Jack Sloper, one of the Beaters on last year's Gryffindor Quidditch team, was hurrying toward him holding a roll of parchment.

John Singer Sargent Girl Fishing painting

John Singer Sargent Girl Fishing paintingJohn Singer Sargent Dorothy Barnard paintingJohn Singer Sargent Atlantic Storm painting
Herbology, fine," she said. "Professor Sprout will be delighted to see you back with an 'Outstanding' O.W.L. And you qualify for Defense Against the Dark Arts with 'Exceeds Expectations.' But the problem is Transfiguration. I'm sorry, Longbottom, but an 'Acceptable' really isn't good enough to continue to N.E.W.T. level. Just don't think you'd be able to cope with the coursework."
Neville hung his head. Professor McGonagall peered at him through her square spectacles.
"Why do you want to continue with Transfiguration, anyway? I've never had the impression that you particularly enjoyed it."
Neville looked miserable and muttered something about "my grandmother wants."
"Hmph," snorted Professot McGonagall. "It's high time your grandmother

Pierre Auguste Renoir Dance at Bougival I painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir Dance at Bougival I painting
Thomas Kinkade Stairway to Paradise painting
On every side broomsticks were leaping into hands; Hermione had already been helped up onto a great black thestral by Kingsley, Fleur onto the other by Bill. Hagrid was standing ready beside the motorbike, goggles on.

"Is this it? Is this Sirius's bike?"

　　　"The very same," said Hagrid, beaming down at Harry. "An' the last time yeh was on it, Harry, I could fit yeh in one hand!"

　　　Harry could not help but feel a little humiliated as he got into the sidecar. It placed him several feet below everybody else: Ron smirked at the sight of him sitting there like a child in a bumper car. Harry stuffed his rucksack and broomstick down by his feet and rammed Hedwig's cage between his knees. He was extremely uncomfortable.

Horace Vernet Judith and Holofernes painting

Horace Vernet Judith and Holofernes painting
Horace Vernet The Lion Hunt painting
other people were dismounting from brooms and, in two cases, skeletal, black winged horses.

　　　Wrenching open the back door, Harry hurtled into their midst. There was a general cry of greeting as Hermione flung her arms around him, Ron clapped him on the back, and Hagrid said, "All righ', Harry? Ready fer the off?"

　　　"Definitely," said Harry, beaming around at them all. "But I wasn't expecting this many of you!"

　　　"Change of plan," growled Mad-Eye, who was holding two enormous bulging sacks, and whose magical eye was spinning from darkening sky to house to garden with dizzying rapidity. "Let's get undercover before we talk you through it."

Edward Hopper Gas painting

Edward Hopper Gas painting
Edward Hopper Ground Swell painting
Harry, what's happened?" bellowed Hagrid. "Where've they gone?"

"I don't know!"

　　　But Harry was afraid: The hooded Death Eater had shouted, "It's the real one!"; how had he known? He gazed around at the apparently empty darkness and felt its menace. Where were they?

　　　He clambered around on the seat to face forward and seized hold of the back of Hagrid's jacket.

"Hagrid, do the dragon-fire thing again, let's get out of here!"

"Hold on tight, then, Harry!"

　　　There was a deafening, screeching roar again and the

Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Smile painting

Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Smile painting
Rembrandt The Return of the Prodigal Son painting
Background Invasive fungal infections are an important cause of posttransplant mortality in solid-organ recipients. The current trend is that the incidence of invasive candidiasis decreases significantly and invasive aspergillosis occurs later in the liver posttransplant recipients. The understanding of epidemiology and its evolving trends in the particular locality is beneficial to prophylactic and empiric treatment for transplant recipients. Methods A retrospective analysis was made of recorded data on the epidemiology, risk factors, and mortality of invasive fungal infections in 352 liver transplant recipients.Results Forty-two (11.9%) patients suffered from invasive fungal infection. Candida species infections (53.3%) were the most common, followed by Aspergillus species (40.0%). There were 21 patients

Michelangelo Buonarroti Creation of Adam painting

Michelangelo Buonarroti Creation of Adam painting
Thomas Kinkade The Rose Garden painting
nation in the world militarily we must increase our strength, increase it so that we will always have enough strength that regardless of what our potential opponents have, if they should Iaunch a surprise attack, we will be able to destroy their war-making capabilities. They must know in other words, that it's national suicide if they begin anything. We need this kind of strength because we are the guardians of the peace.In addition to military strength, we need to see that the economy of this country continues to grow It has grown in the past seven years. It can, and will grow even more in the next four And the reason that it must grow even more is because we have things to do at home, and also because we are in a race for survival, a race in which it isn't enough to be ahead, it isn'tenough simply to be complacent, we have to move ahead in order

Francisco de Goya Nude Maja painting

Francisco de Goya Nude Maja painting
childe hassam Wayside Inn Sudbury Massachusetts painting
computer programmer at the University of Texas suspected that comparable links might be found for any pair of U.S. presidents. To test this, he fed data on presidents into a computer and came up with a profusion of correspondences among them that were just as remarkable, and hence just as unremarkable, as those between Lincoln and Kennedy. Presidents William McKinley and James Garfield, for example, were both Republicans who were born and bred in Ohio. They were both Civil War veterans and both served in the House of Representatives. Both men were ardent supporters of protective tariffs and the gold standard, both were assassinated while in office, and both of their last names contained eight letters, and on and on and on. If you look for coincidences, it's no surprise you might find

Eric Wallis Girls at the Beach painting

Eric Wallis Girls at the Beach painting
Vincent van Gogh Starry Night over the Rhone painting
I have tasted American oranges and beef, and they are certainly good, “ said Chen. “But it’s really my son and his generation who are fond of them. My husband and I are already too old to change our taste.” At the Haidian supermarket near her home, Chen finds the American foodstuff available on the shelves — but the prices are quite high, so she chooses the cheaper local brands instead. With a household income of just $300 per month, she has to watch her budget closely. But that does not stop her from buying American-brand soaps and shampoos, which are produced by American companies in China. There are other benefits in store for Chinese shoppers. Agricultural goods from the United States, such as wheat, corn and soybeans, will become available across China.

Thomas Kinkade HOMETOWN MORNING painting

Thomas Kinkade HOMETOWN MORNING painting
Thomas Kinkade HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS painting

The Internet isn’t dead — it’s evolving, writes Adam Lashinsky. And how companies, Old and New Economy, position themselves to capitalize on that evolution will speak volumes about who will survive, thrive or disappear.
Nov. 2 — The Internet changes everything. That’s what we were told ad nauseam. Think back one year, when the nation was in the grips of dot-com mania — turning longstanding titans of U.S. industries into ossified fossils, profit-challenged concept stocks into must-own issues, tech-whiz college dropouts into paper zillionaires and “widows and orphans” investors into rapid-fire day-traders. Times have changed. And to pick up on the one platitude from the Internet Age that remains dead-on accurate: They change quickly.

Claude Monet Sunflowers painting

Claude Monet Sunflowers painting
Johannes Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring painting

The floor of the New York Stock Exchange is busy with activity as trading for the first day in 2001 nears the closing bell Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2001, in New York. The Nasdaq closed down 178.66 at 2,291.86, and the Dow Jones industrial average fell 140.70 to 10,646.15, a 1.3 percent loss.
NEW YORK - U.S. stocks started the new year on a dismal note, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq market plunging on Tuesday to its lowest close since March 1999, on resurfacing worries that corporate profits will sag as the U.S. economy slows. Investors dumped a wide array of technology stocks and moved to safer investments like bonds after brokerage houses downgraded their investment ratings on high-tech names. Internet gear makers bore the brunt

John William Waterhouse Ophelia painting

John William Waterhouse Ophelia painting
childe hassam At the Piano painting
Yuri Semyonov, head of the Energiya corporation that runs Mir, said the station's solar panels could be the cause of the problem. But speaking to Reuters he dismissed talk of a crisis."I would not stir up passions over this situation," he said. Mir was once the pride of the Russian space program, with a host of endurance records. But Moscow decided last month to dump the increasingly accident-prone vessel in late February -- shortly after its 15th birthday. Russia needs to maintain contact with the station, which has had no crew for months, if it is to orchestrate a controlled re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. Ditching Mir into the Pacific between 900-1,200 miles off Australia requires guiding the station to ensure the bulk of its debris avoids populated areas.

William Bouguereau paintings

William Bouguereau paintings
Yvonne Jeanette Karlsen paintings
Boston's famed Berklee School of music, also wrote a dot-com blues which got a lot of play on jazz radio two years ago. "I went and got online and wasted time and burned up my dime," singer Miles Griffith intones in Elf's tune. "This is a thing I can't get with, I must really be a stiff."Elf's song came about when he got a business card with a URL on it at from a friend at a jazz convention. Elf's card just had a phone number and a wrong address, and he had the dot-com blues. "I'm thinking of all the people that are trying to get online, and the ISP, the server throws them off line — everybody's got the dot-com blues," he said. But Elf's past that blues; now he runs his own Web site. "It was in the beginning a very trying experience but [it’s] turning out to be a very happy one, now especially since I've got a cable modem ... this thing is smokin' and that's no jokin.'"

Abstract paintings

Abstract paintings
Angel painting
Back then it was really a technical profession," says David Testen, a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago. "You didn't just pick up a piece of clay and piece of reed."And that's important because "these texts really tell us where our roots are. It allows us to see patterns of human behavior and why we do what we do," says Collins. "This is probably our best way of seeing those interactions on the ground," says Testen. The Evolution of LanguageThe writing we know today, with an alphabet representing sounds, and words representing objects and ideas, evolved from the ancient "word pictures," scholars say. The "word picture" system eventually included more than 700 signs — too cumbersome, both to write and remember.

Charles Chaplin paintings

Charles Chaplin paintings
Douglas Hofmann paintings
Combs said that while sitting in the trial, he heard things that he knew weren't true and realized he had 12 people in control of his life. But now that he's back in control, he's starting off by changing his name. "When I come back I am changing the name. No more Puff Daddy," he said. And while the name change won't be quite as extreme as that of Prince, who changed his name to a symbol for several years, it's a definite thing, he said. "You know, out with the old, we done beat the Puff Daddy name up enough," he said. "So probably like the first week in June we are going to have a name change ceremony." A Fresh StartIn fact, he would like former President Clinton to change his name.

Leon Bazile Perrault A Water Nymph painting

Leon Bazile Perrault A Water Nymph painting
Albert Bierstadt Buffalo Country painting
The proposal advocates nuclear power as a cheap way of increasing the country's electricity supply, encouraging an industry that has not filed a new application for a nuclear plant since 1978, the year before the notorious Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania."A new dawn is here for the nuclear power industry," says Melanie White, a spokeswoman for the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry-wide lobbying group in Washington.But Bush's proposals also raise plenty of unresolved questions. Do energy companies think there are financial benefits to building multibillion-dollar nuclear plants, some of which effectively bankrupted power companies in the

Stephen Gjertson The Anniversary painting

Stephen Gjertson The Anniversary painting
Pablo Picasso Le Moulin de la Galette painting
rebels and their hostages then crammed into a hijacked helicopter and flew 45 minutes deeper into the jungle, landing in a clearing near the Colombian border. Deep Into the Wilderness Once on the ground, they continued on foot. One guerrilla led the way, hacking out a path with his machete; behind him marched the hostages, single file, each one followed by an armed rebel. In the ensuing days, eight hostages — including Weber, four other Americans, a Chilean, an Argentine and a New Zealander — lived at gunpoint, never knowing whether their captors wanted money or blood. When Weber's wife Lisa first heard the news of his disappearance, she laughed in disbelief.

Fabian Perez tergopelo II painting

Fabian Perez tergopelo II painting
flower The Fruit Basket painting

Halle Berry revealed her acting prowess when she won an Emmy and Golden Globe for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, but in the new action movie, Swordfish, she unveils a lot more.
Berry smooches both co-stars, John Travolta and Hugh Jackman, and also appears without her top for the first time on the big screeen. But it's probably not the last, Berry told ABCNEWS' Good Morning America. "I'm not on this rampage to take my clothes off, but now I look at parts just because I like the characters," Berry said. "I'm reading everything. And if a character inspires me and she happens to have a love scene, well, OK, then I'm open to it." Tripping Co-Star Berry used to toss scripts involving nudity. "I still want to do things tastefully and I don't want to degrade women or

Allan R.Banks paintings

Allan R.Banks paintings
Andrea Mantegna paintings
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, principal investigator on the multinational project. The research has been underway in southern Africa for four years now, and it probably wouldn't have happened there had it not been for the diamonds.For more than a century now the Earth's crust has been probed, mined and gutted in that area in the relentless search for diamonds. Part of the legacy of that quest is a massive amount of geological data about the region, and the mysterious geological structures that brought the diamonds to the surface in the first place.So in 1996 Carlson and colleagues at Carnegie and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology proposed a major study of southern Africa to see what they could learn about the forces that built continents, as well as diamonds. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation and the field work has been completed. Preliminary findings were published in the July 1 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, but it will take years for the scientists to analyze all their data.

Allan R.Banks paintings

Allan R.Banks paintings
Andrea Mantegna paintings
provided plenty of fodder for the tabloids. And the steady stream of gossip continues. Britons speculate on the future of Charles and longtime love Camilla Parker Bowles. Prince Edward and his wife Sophie, Countess of Wessex, have raised questions about whether royals can pursue outside careers without creating conflicts of interest.Amid the scandals, more and more people have also come to question the fiscal rationale for supporting a royal family.Yet a poll cited by the London-based Economist says only one in five Britons would call for the abolition of the monarchy."There is no danger of monarchy in Britain disappearing," said Ronald Linker, a retired professor of history at Penn State University.The royals are the living embodiment of "history of the nation," he said. "As far as all educated people are concerned, they know the monarchy represents who they are."

Venice paintings

Venice paintings
Village painting
Should we celebrate the joy and magic the movies bring?" he asked. "Dare I say it? 'More than ever.'"Beautiful Mind, Ugly CompetitionBefore Washington's big win, Russell Crowe had seemed to be poised to join Spencer Tracy and Tom Hanks as the only actors to win consecutive Best Actor Oscars. He had earned acclaim for his turn as schizophrenic mathematician John Nash in A Beautiful Mind.But his buzz took a beating when he publicly berated the producer of the British Film Academy Awards ceremony for cutting his acceptance speech from the broadcast. The fact that the film did so well in so many other categories suggests that Crowe has lost some favor among his peers.The cast of A Beautiful Mind began celebrating almost from the beginning of the night, when Jennifer Connelly won Best Supporting Actress honors for her portrayal of Nash's long-suffering wife, Alicia.

street painting

street painting
sunset painting
cases but no reported deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites) in Atlanta, Georgia. The American experience contrasts with that of Canada, where 23 people have died and there have been 146 confirmed cases. "We still don't know exactly why... we have been fortunate," the CDC's Julie Gerberding told a telephone press conference. A study reported by the Journal of the American Medical Association (news - web sites) showed 80 percent of SARS cases in Toronto were spread in hospitals and clinics. The study of 144 SARS patients also showed that 93 percent had a 21-day survival rate. The economic fall-out of the outbreak continued in the Asia-Pacific region, with Australian flag-carrier Qantas announcing that it had been

Pierre-Auguste Cot Springtime painting

Pierre-Auguste Cot Springtime painting
Albert Bierstadt Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains California painting

With this ring, more teens are pledging to wait until marriage to start having sex. Nearly 25,000 American teens have taken the vow of chastity with the group, Silver Ring Thing. The ring is ...
Nearly 25,000 American teens have taken the vow of chastity with the group, Silver Ring Thing. The ring is worn like a wedding ring to symbolize their vow of chastity. Silver Ring Thing is part of an abstinence organisation, who hopes to persuade hundreds of their peers to swear a pledge to purity, put a ring on their finger to prove it, and ask God to help them remain chaste until marriage."I've been wearing the ring for about 7 years now," said D.J. Shooter, a sophomore at Yale University, who first slipped it on his finger at age 12. The football player said he and his girlfriend of four years agree sex is something to hold for marriage.

Vincent van Gogh Starry Night over the Rhone I painting

Vincent van Gogh Starry Night over the Rhone I painting
William Bouguereau The Abduction of Psyche painting

That sounds ridiculous. However, a new kind of body adornment is in fashion. If you want to add glitz to your gaze, you can have a thin platinum jewel implanted in the mucus membrane of the eye...
That sounds ridiculous. However, a new kind of body adornment is in fashion. If you want to add glitz to your gaze, you can have a thin platinum jewel implanted in the mucus membrane of the eye.The procedure was developed and patented by The Rotterdam Institute in the Netherlands. There have been no reported side effects or complications in the approximately 50 people around the world who have opted for eyeball jewels.Robert K. Maloney, the first ophthalmologist in America, thinks that eyeball jewelry is fun — and safe. "We believe it's as safe as wearing contact lenses. It's certainly as

Frederic Remington paintings

Frederic Remington paintings
Francisco de Goya paintings
vacancies send mixed signals to a world that continues to hold a dim view of American policies - particularly in Arab and Muslim areas - even as it looks to the United States for leadership.The more attention-grabbing of the two is the US ambassadorship to the United Nations, for which Mr. Bush has nominated controversial arms-control diplomat John Bolton. Naming the blunt proponent of American power delighted conservatives while dismaying liberals and it's now held up in Senate committee where moderate Republicans wanted to take a second look.A committee vote is now set for as early as Thursday, with most observers at this point predicting Mr. Bolton's eventual confirmation. But the battle has left the seat unfilled at a time when countries are formulating positions on the

Alexandre Cabanel paintings

Alexandre Cabanel paintings
Anders Zorn paintings

As more consumers turn a deaf ear to traditional radio, stations increasingly are switching formats.
As more consumers turn a deaf ear to traditional radio, stations increasingly are switching formats.The Internet, iPods, computer games, podcasting, commercial-free satellite radio and staid programming have combined to slice average weekly listening time 9% since 1998, prompting many "terrestrial" commercial stations to jettison even relatively strong formats, such as rock, in several big markets.Country, talk, adult contemporary and religious formats still dominate. But with satellite radio growth exploding, format flips are accelerating as stations "become more earnest addressing the erosion in listenership," says Sean Ross of Edison Media Research. Hot concepts:

Decorative painting

Decorative painting
city, and before we left the hotel room I gave Donna a book of sonnets. On the front of the book, I posted a note that directed her to specific pages, until she reached a sonnet by Christopher Marlowe that begins, "Live with me and be my love." That one said it all. I put a note there that directed her to the nightstand, where I'd left a small box. Donna started crying as she opened it and saw the diamond-and-sapphire engagement ring. In fact, she cried all through dinner. I wanted to tell the waiter that we just got engaged, but Donna was so excited and overwhelmed that she refused to talk about it. to improve, and then I started talking about all our good times and how much I loved her -- and why. I guess I overdid it, because sheplanned to propose to my girlfriend that night and asked them to read a fake song-request note I'd written before they played her favorite song. The note said: "I've got a gal here from South Carolina who loves the song 'Hickory Wind.' I was said, "What's going on

Pablo Picasso Le Moulin de la Galette painting

Pablo Picasso Le Moulin de la Galette painting
Tamara de Lempicka Adam and Eve painting
Several years ago, I was still a timid girl, with a tomboy appearance and, to say, quiet sheepish. Being in a state of searching for evidences to prove my excellence, I found none. Disappointment eroded my young heart, but I was always eager to compare myself with my classmates who were then so excellent and outstanding. The more I did so, the more depressed I got. I lost the only confidence I used to have. I dared not to speak in front of many people, and I was afraid to speak out my ideas. For a while, I was besieged by pessimism and self-denial.
Luckily, my class teacher, Mrs. Carmelita, was an observant old lady. Honestly speaking, she was the one who gently pulled me from the fringes of self destruction. One day after school, when all the other students were gone, she gently asked me to stay behind for a special lesson. A special lesson? As I was waiting for punishments from her, I was extremely surprised and puzzled when she took my trembling hands in hers, and told me to look straight into her powerful eyes.
“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.”

Cheri Blum paintings

Cheri Blum paintings
Camille Pissarro paintings
thing. They were at a loss for an adequate motive. As to me, I seemed to see Kurtz for the first time. It was a distinct glimpse: the dugout, four paddling savages, and the lone white man turning his back suddenly on the headquarters, on relief, on thoughts of home - perhaps; setting his face towards the depths of the wilderness, towards his empty and desolate station. I did not know the motive. Perhaps he was just simply a fine fellow who stuck to his work for its own sake. His name, you understand, had not been pronounced once. He was ‘that man.’ The half caste, who, as far as I could see, had conducted a difficult trip with great prudence and pluck, was invariably alluded to as ‘that scoundrel.’ The ‘scoundrel’ had reported that the ‘man’ had been very ill - had recovered imperfectly.... The two below me moved away then a few paces, and strolled back and forth at some little distance. I heard: ‘Military post - doctor - two hundred miles - quite alone now - unavoidable delays - nine months - no news - strange rumours.’ They approached again, just as the manager was saying, ‘No one, as far as I know, unless a species of wandering trader - a pestilential fellow, snapping ivory from the natives.’ Who was it they were talking about now? I gathered in snatches that this was some man supposed to be in Kurtz’s district, and of whom the manager did not approve. ‘We will not be free from unfair competition till one of these fellows is hanged for an example,’ he said. ‘Certainly,’ grunted the

Theodore Chasseriau Apollo and Daphne painting

Theodore Chasseriau Apollo and Daphne painting
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Virgin of the Adoption painting
landscape over which Gilbert's crow had flown. The hills and fields were dry and brown and warm, ready to break into bud and blossom; the harbor was laughter-shaken again; the long harbor road was like a gleaming red ribbon; down on the dunes a crowd of boys, who were out smelt fishing, were burning the thick, dry sandhill grass of the preceding summer. The flames swept over the dunes rosily, flinging their cardinal banners against the dark gulf beyond, and illuminating the channel and the fishing village. It was a picturesque scene which would at other times have delighted Anne's eyes; but she was not enjoying this walk. Neither was Gilbert. Their usual good-comradeship and Josephian community of taste and viewpoint were sadly lacking. Anne's disapproval of the whole project showed itself in the haughty uplift of her head and the studied politeness of her remarks. Gilbert's mouth was set in all the Blythe obstinacy, but his eyes were troubled. He meant to do what he believed to be his duty; but to be at outs with Anne was a high price to pay. Altogether, both were glad when they reached the light--and remorseful that they should be glad.
Captain Jim put away the fishing net upon which he was working, and welcomed th

Yvonne Jeanette Karlsen By the sea painting

Yvonne Jeanette Karlsen By the sea painting
Claude Monet Vetheuil In Summer painting
What is it?" she asked gaily. "You look fearfully solemn, Gilbert. I really haven't done anything naughty today. Ask Susan."
"It's not of you--or ourselves--I want to talk. It's about Dick Moore."
"Dick Moore?" echoed Anne, sitting up alertly. "Why, what in the world have you to say about Dick Moore?"
"I've been thinking a great deal about him lately. Do you remember that time last summer I treated him for those carbuncles on his neck?"
"Yes--yes."
" I took the opportunity to examine the scars on his head thoroughly. I've always thought Dick was a very interesting case from a medical point of view. Lately I've been studying the history of trephining and the cases where it has been employed. Anne, I have come to the conclusion that if Dick Moore were taken to a good hospital and the operation of trephining performed on several places in his skull, his memory and faculties might be restored."

Fabian Perez Flamenco DancerII painting

Fabian Perez Flamenco DancerII painting
Edward Hopper Ground Swell painting
Captain Jim had an ice boat, and many a wild, glorious spin Gilbert and Anne and Leslie had over the glib harbor ice with him. Anne and Leslie took long snowshoe tramps together, too, over the fields, or across the harbor after storms, or through the woods beyond the Glen. They were very good comrades in their rambles and their fireside communings. Each had something to give the other--each felt life the richer for friendly exchange of thought and friendly silence; each looked across the white fields between their homes with a pleasant consciousness of a friend beyond. But, in spite of all this, Anne felt that there was always a barrier between Leslie and herself--a constraint that never wholly vanished.
"I don't know why I can't get closer to her," Anne said one evening to Captain Jim. "I like her so much--I admire her so much--I want to take her right into my heart and creep right into hers. But I can never cross the barrier."
"You've been too happy all your life, Mistress Blythe," said

Lord Frederick Leighton paintings

Lord Frederick Leighton paintings
Mark Rothko paintings
Old Doctor Dave" and "Mrs. Doctor Dave" had come down to the little house to greet the bride and groom. Doctor Dave was a big, jolly, white-whiskered old fellow, and Mrs. Doctor was a trim rosy-cheeked, silver-haired little lady who took Anne at once to her heart, literally and figuratively.
"I'm so glad to see you, dear. You must be real tired. We've got a bite of supper ready, and Captain Jim brought up some trout for you. Captain Jim--where are you? Oh, he's slipped out to see to the horse, I suppose. Come upstairs and take your things off."
Anne looked about her with bright, appreciative eyes as she followed Mrs. Doctor Dave upstairs. She liked the appearance of her new home very much. It seemed to have the atmosphere of Green Gables and the flavor of her old traditions.
"I think I would have found Miss Elizabeth Russell a `kindred spirit,'" she murmured when she was alone in her room. There were two windows in it; the dormer one looked out on the lower harbor and the sand-bar and the Four Winds light. "A magic casement opening on the foam
Of perilous seas in fairy lands forlorn,"

Frida Kahlo paintings

Frida Kahlo paintings
Frederick Carl Frieseke paintings
her. Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.
Mrs. Inglis--nee Jane Andrews, to quote from the Daily Enterprise--came with her mother and Mrs. Jasper Bell. But in Jane the milk of human kindness had not been curdled by years of matrimonial bickerings. Her lines had fallen in pleasant places. In spite of the fact--as Mrs. Rachel Lynde would say--that she had married a millionaire, her marriage had been happy. Wealth had not spoiled her. She was still the placid, amiable, pink-cheeked Jane of the old quartette, sympathising with her old chum's happiness and as keenly interested in all the dainty details of Anne's trousseau as if it could rival her own silken and bejewelled splendors. Jane was not brilliant, and had probably never made a remark worth listening to in her life; but she never said anything that would hurt anyone's feelings-- which may be a negative talent but is likewise a rare and enviable one.
"So Gilbert didn't go back on you after all," said Mrs. Harmon Andrews, contriving to convey an expression of surprise in her tone. "Well, the Blythes generally keep their word when they've once passed it, no matter what happens. Let me see--you're twenty-five, aren't you, Anne? When I was a girl twenty-five was the first corner. But you look quite young. Red-headed people always do."
"Red hair is very fashionable now," said Anne, trying to smile, but speaking

Dirck Bouts paintings

Dirck Bouts paintings
Dante Gabriel Rossetti paintings
but, after this, a bi-annual visit would be as much as could be hoped for.
"You needn't let what Mrs. Harmon says worry you," said Diana, with the calm assurance of the four-years matron. "Married life has its ups and downs, of course. You mustn't expect that everything will always go smoothly. But I can assure you, Anne, that it's a happy life, when you're married to the right man."
Anne smothered a smile. Diana's airs of vast experience always amused her a little.
"I daresay I'll be putting them on too, when I've been married four years," she thought. "Surely my sense of humor will preserve me from it, though."
"Is it settled yet where you are going to live?" asked Diana, cuddling Small Anne Cordelia with the inimitable gesture of motherhood which always sent through Anne's heart, filled with sweet, unuttered dreams and hopes, a thrill that was half pure pleasure and half a strange, ethereal pain.

flower The Fruit Basket painting

flower The Fruit Basket painting
Gustav Klimt Death and Life painting
them. But I'm inclined to have a better opinion of Miss Carson than you have. I saw her in prayer-meeting last night, and she has a pair of eyes that can't always look sensible. Now, Davy-boy, take heart of grace. `Tomorrow will bring another day' and I'll help you with the sums as far as in me lies. Don't waste this lovely hour `twixt light and dark worrying over arithmetic."
"Well, I won't," said Davy, brightening up. "If you help me with the sums I'll have 'em done in time to go fishing with Milty. I wish old Aunt Atossa's funeral was tomorrow instead of today. I wanted to go to it 'cause Milty said his mother said Aunt Atossa would be sure to rise up in her coffin and say sarcastic things to the folks that come to see her buried. But Marilla said she didn't."
"Poor Atossa laid in her coffin peaceful enough," said

Daniel Ridgway Knight The Honeymoon Breakfast painting

Daniel Ridgway Knight The Honeymoon Breakfast painting
William Merritt Chase Chase Summertime painting
Yes. And I sneezed three times while he was asking me. Wasn't that horrid? But I said `yes' almost before he finished -- I was so afraid he might change his mind and stop. I'm besottedly happy. I couldn't really believe before that Jonas would ever care for frivolous me."
"Phil, you're not really frivolous," said Anne gravely. "'Way down underneath that frivolous exterior of yours you've got a dear, loyal, womanly little soul. Why do you hide it so?"
"I can't help it, Queen Anne. You are right -- I'm not frivolous at heart. But there's a sort of frivolous skin over my soul and I can't take it off. As Mrs. Poyser says, I'd have to be hatched over again and hatched different before I could change it. But Jonas knows the real me and loves me, frivolity and all. And I love him. I never was so surprised in my life as I was when I found out I loved him. I'd never thought it possible to fall in love with an ugly man. Fancy me coming down to one solitary beau. And one named Jonas! But I mean to call him Jo. That's such a nice, crisp little name. I couldn't nickname Alonzo."

Steve Hanks Comfort in Solitude painting

Steve Hanks Comfort in Solitude painting
William Bouguereau The Virgin with Angels painting
The mention of age evidently gave a new turn to Davy's thoughts for after a few moments of reflection, he whispered solemnly:
"Anne, I'm going to be married."
"When?" asked Anne with equal solemnity.
"Oh, not until I'm grown-up, of course."
"Well, that's a relief, Davy. Who is the lady?"
"Stella Fletcher; she's in my class at school. And say, Anne, she's the prettiest girl you ever saw. If I die before I grow up you'll keep an eye on her, won't you?"
"Davy Keith, do stop talking such nonsense," said Marilla severely.
" 'Tisn't nonsense," protested Davy in an injured tone. "She's my promised wife, and if I was to die she'd be my promised widow, wouldn't she? And she hasn't got a soul to look after her except her old grandmother."
"Come and have your supper, Anne," said Marilla, "and don't encourage that child in his absurd talk."

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Pino Soft Light painting
Pino Mystic Dreams painting
over half the time and if we come up or down the stairs in the dark we fall over them. Last Sunday, when Dr. Davis prayed for all those exposed to the perils of the sea, I added in thought `and for all those who live in houses where cushions are loved not wisely but too well!' There! we're ready, and I see the boys coming through Old St. John's. Do you cast in your lot with us, Phil?"
"I'll go, if I can walk with Priscilla and Charlie. That will be a bearable degree of gooseberry. That Gilbert of yours is a darling, Anne, but why does he go around so much with Goggle-eyes?"
Anne stiffened. She had no great liking for Charlie Sloane; but he was of Avonlea, so no outsider had any business to laugh at him.
"Charlie and Gilbert have always been friends," she said coldly. "Charlie is a nice boy. He's not to blame for his eyes."
"Don't tell me that! He is! He must have done something dreadful in a previous existence

Claude Monet Sunflowers painting

Claude Monet Sunflowers painting
Lord Frederick Leighton Leighton Flaming June painting
minister jumped off or fell off. The pig rushed through the brook like mad and up through the woods. Marilla and I run down and helped the minister get up and brush his coat. He wasn't hurt, but he was mad. He seemed to hold Marilla and me responsible for it all, though we told him the pig didn't belong to us, and had been pestering us all summer. Besides, what did he come to the back door for? You'd never have caught Mr. Allan doing that. It'll be a long time before we get a man like Mr. Allan. But it's an ill wind that blows no good. We've never seen hoof or hair of that pig since, and it's my belief we never will.
"Things is pretty quiet in Avonlea. I don't find Green Gables as lonesome as I expected. I think I'll start another cotton warp quilt this winter. Mrs. Silas Sloane has a handsome new apple-leaf pattern.
"When I feel that I must have some excitement I read the murder trials in that Boston paper my niece sends me. I never used to do it, but they're real interesting. The States must be an awful place. I hope you'll never go there, Anne. But the way girls roam over the earth now is something terrible. It always makes me think of Satan in the Book of Job, going to and fro and walking

Henri Fantin-Latour paintings

Henri Fantin-Latour paintings
Horace Vernet paintings
River; but his companion was a stranger. . .a scrap of a woman who sprang nimbly down at the gate almost before the horse came to a standstill. She was a very pretty little person, evidently nearer fifty than forty, but with rosy cheeks, sparkling black eyes, and shining black hair, surmounted by a wonderful beflowered and beplumed bonnet. In spite of having driven eight miles over a dusty road she was as neat as if she had just stepped out of the proverbial bandbox.
"Is this where Mr. James A. Harrison lives?" she inquired briskly.
"No, Mr. Harrison lives over there," said Anne, quite lost in astonishment.
"Well, I did think this place seemed too tidy. . .much too tidy for James A. to be living here, unless he has greatly changed since I knew him," chirped the little lady. "Is it true that James A. is going to be married to some woman living in this settlement?"

Dante Gabriel Rossetti paintings

Dante Gabriel Rossetti paintings
Daniel Ridgway Knight paintings
neither Marilla nor Anne nor anybody else was fated to make pies out of Yellow Duchess apples that year.
The twenty-third of May came. . .an unseasonably warm day, as none realized more keenly than Anne and her little beehive of pupils, sweltering over fractions and syntax in the Avonlea schoolroom. A hot breeze blew all the forenoon; but after noon hour it died away into a heavy stillness. At half past three Anne heard a low rumble of thunder. She promptly dismissed school at once, so that the children might get home before the storm came.
As they went out to the playground Anne perceived a certain shadow and gloom over the world in spite of the fact that the sun was still shining brightly. Annetta Bell caught her hand nervously.
"Oh, teacher, look at that awful cloud!"
Anne looked and gave an exclamation of dismay. In the northwest a mass of cloud

Winslow Homer paintings

Winslow Homer paintings
William Bouguereau paintings
I think I'll take a walk through to Echo Lodge this evening," said Anne, one Friday afternoon in December.
"It looks like snow," said Marilla dubiously.
"I'll be there before the snow comes and I mean to stay all night. Diana can't go because she has company, and I'm sure Miss Lavendar will be looking for me tonight. It's a whole fortnight since I was there."
Anne had paid many a visit to Echo Lodge since that October day. Sometimes she and Diana drove around by the road; sometimes they walked through the woods. When Diana could not go Anne went alone. Between her and Miss Lavendar had sprung up one of those fervent, helpful friendships possible only between a woman who has kept the freshness of youth in her heart and soul, and a girl whose imagination and intuition supplied the place of experience. Anne had at last discovered

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oil painting from picture
rugs and Mrs. Levi Boulter some old chairs and Aunt Mary Shaw will lend us her cupboard with the glass doors. I suppose Marilla will let us have her brass candlesticks? And we want all the old dishes we can get. Mrs. Allan is specially set on having a real blue willow ware platter if we can find one. But nobody seems to have one. Do you know where we could get one?"
"Miss Josephine Barry has one. I'll write and ask her if she'll lend it for the occasion," said Anne.
"Well, I wish you would. I guess we'll have the supper in about a fortnight's time. Uncle Abe Andrews is prophesying rain and storms for about that time; and that's a pretty sure sign we'll have fine weather."
The said "Uncle Abe," it may be mentioned, was at least like other prophets

Alphonse Maria Mucha Untitled Alphonse Maria Mucha painting

Alphonse Maria Mucha Untitled Alphonse Maria Mucha painting
William Bouguereau Cupid and Psyche as Children painting
the door. And then Davy brought me here and run out and shut the door; and I couldn't get out. I cried and cried, I was frightened, and oh, I'm so hungry and cold; and I thought you'd never come, Anne."
"Davy?" But Anne could say no more. She carried Dora home with a heavy heart. Her joy at finding the child safe and sound was drowned out in the pain caused by Davy's behavior. The freak of shutting Dora up might easily have been pardoned. But Davy had told falsehoods. . .downright coldblooded falsehoods about it. That was the ugly fact and Anne could not shut her eyes to it. She could have sat down and cried with sheer disappointment. She had grown to love Davy dearly. . .how dearly she had not known until this minute. . .and it hurt her unbearably to discover that he was guilty of deliberate falsehood.
Marilla listened to Anne's tale in a silence that boded no good Davy-ward; Mr. Barry laughed and advised that Davy be summarily dealt with. When he had gone home Anne soothed and warmed the sobbing, shivering Dora, got her her supper and put her to bed. Then she returned to the kitchen, just as Marilla came grimly in, leading, or rather pulling, th

Claude Monet Sunset painting

Claude Monet Sunset painting
Claude Monet Poppy Field In A Hollow Near Giverny painting
That old nuisance of a Rachel Lynde was here again today, pestering me for a subscription towards buying a carpet for the vestry room," said Mr. Harrison wrathfully. "I detest that woman more than anybody I know. She can put a whole sermon, text, comment, and application, into six words, and throw it at you like a brick."
Anne, who was perched on the edge of the veranda, enjoying the charm of a mild west wind blowing across a newly ploughed field on a gray November twilight and piping a quaint little melody among the twisted firs below the garden, turned her dreamy face over her shoulder.
"The trouble is, you and Mrs. Lynde don't understand one another," she explained. "That is always what is wrong when people don't like each other. I didn't like Mrs. Lynde at first either; but as soon as I came to understand her I learned to."

Franz Marc paintings

Franz Marc paintings
Fabian Perez paintings
Yes; only we'll have to devise some way of getting old Mrs. Hiram Sloane to keep her cow off the road, or she'll eat our geraniums up," laughed Diana. "I begin to see what you mean by educating public sentiment, Anne. There's the old Boulter house now. Did you ever see such a rookery? And perched right close to the road too. An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out."
"I think an old, deserted house is such a sad sight," said Anne dreamily. "It always seems to me to be thinking about its past and mourning for its old-time joys. Marilla says that a large family was raised in that old house long ago, and that it was a real pretty place, with a lovely garden and roses climbing all over it. It was full of little children and laughter and songs; and now it is empty, and nothing ever wanders through it but the wind. How lonely and sorrowful it must feel! Perhaps they all come back on moonlit nights. . .the ghosts of the little children of long ago and the roses