Thomas Kinkade The Heart of San Francisco painting

Thomas Kinkade The Heart of San Francisco paintingThomas Kinkade The Garden of Prayer paintingThomas Kinkade Sunset on Lamplight Lane painting
Quite right! You recognized it, I suppose, by its distinctive mother-of-pearl sheen?"
"And the steam rising in characteristic spirals," said Hermione enthusiastically, "and it's supposed to smell differently to each of according to what attracts us, and I can smell freshly mown grass and new parchment and -"
But she turned slightly pink and did not complete the sentence.
'May I ask your name, my dear?" said Slughorn, ignoring Hermione's embarrassment.
“Hermione Granger, sir."
"Granger? Granger? Can you possibly be related to Hector Dagworth-Granger,

Vincent van Gogh Harvest Landscape painting

Vincent van Gogh Harvest Landscape paintingVincent van Gogh Fishing in Spring paintingVincent van Gogh Cornfield with Cypresses painting
pigheadedness, however, Ron was unimpressed.
“Come on, Harry, he was just showing off for Parkinson….
What kind of mission would You-Know-Who have given him?"
“How d'you know Voldemort doesn't need someone at Hogwarts? It wouldn't be the first —"
“I wish yeh'd stop sayin' tha name, Harry," said a reproachful voice behind them. Harry looked over his shoulder to see Hagtid shaking his head.
"Dumbledore uses that name," said Harry stubbornly
“Yeah, well, tha's Dumbledore, innit?" said Hagrid mysteriously.
“So how come yeh were late, Harry? I was worried."
"Got held up on the train," said Harry. "Why were you late?"
"I was with Grawp," said Hagrid happily. "Los' track o' the time. He's got a new Home up in the mountains now, Dumbledore fixed it — nice big cave. He's much happier than he was in the forest. We were havin' a good chat."

William Bouguereau the first kiss painting

William Bouguereau the first kiss painting
Claude Monet Water Lily Pond painting
"Here we go again, Harry, hold on!" yelled Hagrid, and he jabbed at a second button. This time a great net burst from the bike's exhaust, but the Death Eaters were ready for it. Not only did they swerve to avoid it, but the companion who had slowed to save their unconscious friend had caught up. He bloomed suddenly out of the darkness and now three of them were pursuing the motorbike, all shooting curses after it.

　　　"This'll do it, Harry, hold on tight!" yelled Hagrid, and Harry saw him slam his whole hand onto the purple button beside the speedometer.

　　　With an unmistakable bellowing roar, dragon fire burst from the exhaust, white-hot and blue, and the motorbike shot forward like a bullet with a sound of wrenching metal. Harry saw the Death Eaters swerve out of sight to avoid the deadly trail of flame,

Ingres Perseus and Andromeda painting

Ingres Perseus and Andromeda painting
Guido Reni Baptism of Christ painting
because it's the first time for all of us," said Ron.

"This is different, pretending to be me –"

　　　"Well, none of us really fancy it, Harry," said Fred earnestly. "Imagine if something went wrong and we were stuck as specky, scrawny gits forever."

Harry did not smile.

"You can't do it if I don't cooperate, you need me to give you some hair."

　　　"Well, that's the plan scuppered," said George. "Obviously there's no chance at all of us getting a bit of your hair unless you cooperate."

　　　"Yeah, thirteen of us against one bloke who's not allowed to use magic; we've got no chance," said Fred.

Salvador Dali Les Elephants painting

Salvador Dali Les Elephants painting
Mark Rothko Orange and Yellow painting
The motorbike zoomed forward; Harry glimpsed hooded Death Eaters scattering as Hagrid blasted through their circle.

"Hedwig – Hedwig –"

　　　But the owl lay motionless and pathetic as a toy on the floor of her cage. He could not take it in, and his terror for the others was paramount. He glanced over his shoulder and saw a mass of people moving, flares of green light, two pairs of people on brooms soaring off into the distance, but he could not tell who they were –

　　　"Hagrid, we've got to go back, we've got to go back!" he yelled over the thunderous roar of the engine, pulling out his wand, ramming Hedwig's cage into the floor, refusing to believe that she was dead. "Hagrid, TURN AROUND!"

Vincent van Gogh Self Portrait painting

Vincent van Gogh Self Portrait painting
Vincent van Gogh Sunflowers painting
Min Department of Anesthesiology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100083, China; ZHANG Li-ping Department of Anesthesiology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100083, China; YANG Lu Department of Anesthesiology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100083, ChinaCorrespondence to: ZHANG Li-pingscores: <15>25 (high). Intraoperatively, volume was restored with allogeneic and/or salvaged red blood cells (RBC), fresh-frozen plasma (FFP), platelet and other types of fluids

Vincent van Gogh Self Portrait painting

Vincent van Gogh Self Portrait painting
Vincent van Gogh Sunflowers painting
Before beginning the prepared address, I must make the remark that this introduction, this reception here. caused humility rather than pride, I am well aware of that, Not often in the story of mankind has a man arrived on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock, and soft as drifting fog. There was in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible stormand peace, unspeakable and perfect. There have come, across centuries, reports of men alleged to have these contrasts, and the incomparable Abraham Lincoln, born one hundred and fifty years ago this day is an approach, if not a perfect realization of this character.In the time of the April lilacs, in the year 1865, on his death, the casket with

Frida Kahlo The Broken Column painting

Frida Kahlo The Broken Column painting
Frida Kahlo Self Portrait painting

near Jackie Kennedy's Martha's Vineyard home, John Kennedy was on his way to a cousin's wedding in Hyannis Port, and on and on and on. But the game of piling up of such coincidences is too easy. What counts as one? The son of Jackie Kennedy's second husband, Aristotle Onassis, for example, also died in a small plane crash, and his daughter was reported to have died of a drug overdose. Does this count? I don't doubt that such levels of tragedy have afflicted other lesser-known families. But I don't believe there's any evidence for curses, nor any mystical significance of links and ironies. Does this lessen the heartbreak of the Kennedy and Bessette deaths? Unfortunately not.

Edgar Degas Ballet Rehearsal painting

Edgar Degas Ballet Rehearsal painting
Edgar Degas Absinthe painting
its fifth-largest point slide ever and its lowest close since March 14, 2000. Three stocks fell for every one that rose on the New York Stock Exchange (news - web sites).The battered shares of Home Depot (NYSE:HD - news) and the Wall Street house J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc. (NYSE:JPM - news) and computer maker International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM - news) accounted for more than half the Dow's drop.The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index (^IXIC - news) finished at 3,074.68, its lowest close since Nov. 4, 1999. The Nasdaq fell 93.81 points on Thursday for a loss of 2.96 percent. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index (^SPX - news) slumped 34.81 points, or 2.55 percent, at 1,329.78, in its lowest close to date this year.Wall Street has been swamped by fears that high oil prices, a slowing U.S. economy and a weak European single currency would depress corporate America's earnings.

Winslow Homer Children on the Beach painting

Winslow Homer Children on the Beach painting
Andrew Atroshenko What a Wonderful Life painting
But like any revolution, the Internet era has been tumultuous. Even as Amazon.com struggles with never-ending losses, its bricks-and-mortar competitors fare no better on the Web.Wal-Mart Stores recently launched its walmart.com Web site — for the third time. Sears, Roebuck says that 10 percent of its in-store purchasers of home appliances researched their buys first on the sears.com Web site, according to customer surveys. But its Sears Online unit refuses to break out sales or costs, referring instead to industry statistics on visits to its Web site, an irrelevant statistic for anyone trying to figure out if Sears’ online effort is a success.For example, numerous B2B companies quoted industry statistics that the business-to-business economy would hit $1.3 trillion by 2003. That those

Caravaggio Amor Vincit Omnia painting

Caravaggio Amor Vincit Omnia painting
Raphael Saint George and the Dragon painting
anyone else for the second consecutive year as 1.65 million fans passed through the turnstiles, down from nearly 1.8 million in 1999. The Dave Matthews Band was hot on 'N Sync's tail with 1.64 million tickets sold, followed by KISS and Britney Spears with about 1.3 million each, and Turner with 1.25 million.KISS were the hardest working band, playing 128 shows in 120 cities as part of their latest farewell tour. Only popular parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic played more dates -- 150 in 141 cities, grossing $5.7 million. Yankovic ranked 70th on the receipts list, one place ahead of the aborted reunion tour by Diana Ross and two backing singers billed as the Supremes. The ill-fated jaunt, which was canceled in July, still managed to pull in $5.6 million from 12 dates. It had been scheduled to run for about 30 shows.

John Collier In the Venusberg Tannhauser painting

John Collier In the Venusberg Tannhauser painting
Pablo Picasso Card Player painting
Russian Mission Control chief Vladimir Solovyov said experts were studying data to work out why ground control had lost contact with Mir around 7 a.m. EST on Monday. The incident sparked fears of an uncontrolled return to earth by the 130-ton Mir with possible catastrophic consequences if debris struck populated regions. Solovyov moved to quash such concerns: "There is no threat. Mir will not fall on our heads tomorrow nor on New Year's."He said a sudden discharge of all batteries aboard Mir was responsible for the communications breakdown but what had caused the loss of power remained a mystery. The batteries were now accumulating energy. Once they are fully charged, computers will start checking equipment on board to identify the fault, he said.

Alfred Gockel paintings

Alfred Gockel paintings
Alexei Alexeivich Harlamoff paintings
Experts cautioned, however, that most U.S. consumers would have difficulty taking advantage of the results unless the makers of processed foods changed their practices.The results were based on a comprehensive evaluation of 412 volunteers, half of whom ate a typical U.S. diet and half who consumed mostly fruits, vegetables and low-fat products — a diet already found to lower blood pressure.At the same time, researchers, led by Dr. Frank Sacks had volunteers consume one of three different levels of salt. The patients stuck with each diet for 30 days, then switched to a diet with a different salt content. The team found those who consumed 3 grams of salt a day instead of the 9 grams in a typical diet were able to lower their systolic blood pressure — the higher number in a blood pressure reading — by nearly seven points if they were on a regular diet and by three points if they ate the healthier diet.

street painting

street painting
sunset painting
Zidane is the second soccer player after Brazil's Ronaldo to be appointed a UNDP goodwill ambassador. Other ambassadors are US actor Danny Glover, Egyptian-born actor Omar Sharif, South African novelist Nadine Gordimer and Japanese actress
The first words of the Bible are "In the beginning," but the first words ever recorded were probably more prosaic.
They were probably something along the lines of "Bob. Three sheep."Scholars who trace the invention of writing say the oldest writing was far from poetry, but was rather an accounting record. They say it developed because ancient man needed a way of keeping records for business and government. Misako Kono.

Cheri Blum paintings

Cheri Blum paintings
Camille Pissarro paintings
Currently, the Southeast Asian countries and South Korea are the main markets for China’s corn exports. In South Korea, in particular, Chinese corn makes up the biggest share of imported corn. This is because more South Korean firms are refusing to import U.S. corn as the public opposes transgenosis technology, which incorporates the genes from different species into one, the Futures Daily article said.
After being cleared earlier this month of gun and bribery charges in a high-profile trial that riveted rap fans and celebrity watchers alike, rap star Sean "Puffy" Combs is counting his blessings, and changing his name.
A jury on March 16 acquitted Combs of all gun and bribery charges stemming from a shootout inside a packed Manhattan nightclub that left three people wounded and sent other patrons scrambling for cover. In an interview with MTV News' Sway Calloway, Combs said that while waiting for the verdict he was calm and had faith, but there was also a certain level of fear.

Albert Bierstadt Bavarian Landscape painting

Albert Bierstadt Bavarian Landscape painting
Andrew Atroshenko Bold Expression painting
1360: Tommaso Pisano completes the tower, adding a belfry and making other minor corrections. Late 1830s: Nearby excavation work begins to destabilize the tower's base.1990: Italian government closes tower to tourists over fears it is leaning too far. June 6, 2001: Official inauguration ceremony for the leaning Tower of Pisa . November 2001: The Tower is set to reopen to tourists and climbers for $12 admission. Guides will lead groups of 30 at time. Beyond 2300: Next time engineers believe the tower will need a major overhaul. A Big Sigh of Relief"It's a little like running a marathon," Burland says of saving the tower. "You're concentrating so hard that before you know it you're crossing the finishing line."

William Bouguereau The Virgin with Angels painting

William Bouguereau The Virgin with Angels painting
Gustav Klimt lady with hat and feather boa painting
It was a little more difficult than I'd expected because of the wind, because of the sun," Robert told Reuters after his vertiginous conquest. "Sometimes it was a bit slippery," he said, adding the windows had just been washed. The Long Arm of the Law The crowd which gathered to watch the man, who is sometimes called the French Daddy-long-legs, may have unwittingly tipped police to what was going on.Although Robert has courted arrest several times in the course of his urban climbing career, the French police are known to be a lot more sympathetic towards the local Spiderman than police in many parts of the world. Robert was apprehended on Tuesday, but not charged. According to local media

Daniel Ridgway Knight Knight Picking Flowers painting

Daniel Ridgway Knight Knight Picking Flowers painting
John Collier In the Venusberg Tannhauser painting

How do you become one of the 10 wealthiest people in the world, and the head of the second-largest media empire on the planet?
Equal parts toil and desire, says Sumner Redstone, billionaire CEO of entertainment conglomerate Viacom, who chronicles his rags-to-riches story in a recently published autobiography, A Passion to Win.While not exactly a household name, it would be hard to watch TV and movies or read a book without coming in contact with Redstone's holdings. Among them are CBS, Paramount Pictures, MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Showtime, Blockbuster Video and Simon & Schuster books. But it's not about the money, says Redstone, who's worth about $14 billion

Theodore Robinson paintings

Theodore Robinson paintings
Titian paintings
All of these factors have some technologists and analysts talking of a post-PC era, a time when the computing devices used by most people are not the familiar desktop boxes that have launched careers, built fortunes, and become a seemingly permanent fixture in our homes and offices. "We're coming out of the fixed Internet era, based around the desktop PC," says John Stautner, a vice president for technology and new markets at Compaq, the world's second-biggest PC maker. "We're looking at an era when you can get on the Internet from pretty much anywhere." Stautner thinks that "mobility, flexibility and the ability to stay in touch," will be the hallmarks of popular computing devices of the future.(Day Two: A look ahead at the PC and the next Internet.)Still, not everyone agrees that the PC era in winding down."For all the stuff you can say about PCs, they're still a tremendous product that can do a lot of things at a reasonable price," concludes Baker. "People are reluctant to give that up."

Edmund Blair Leighton paintings

Edmund Blair Leighton paintings
Eugene de Blaas paintings
Tien is also concerned that the "benefits" of being able to track people clandestinely may be forced upon others. "If it works here — finding lost loved ones — so then we'll use it for released prisoners and sex offenders," says Tien. "If the choice is offered to a person to either stay in prison for another year or to go on parole as long as they have this monitoring chip in them, then that's not really much of a choice in my opinion," he says.And while the EFF isn't openly condemning embedded chip technology, "Our critique of proposed technology solutions — whether they be chip implants or national ID cards — is that people will abuse them," says Tien. "That's the fundamental issue of human nature."Crawling Toward a Race of Cyborgs?Such qualms over privacy, whether real or overblown, are likely to keep any mass "chipping" from happening in the near future. And that may be the ultimate problem for the technology overall.

Still Life paintings

Still Life paintings
street painting
Davis believes the death toll among all animals could be reduced if ranchers concentrated on raising cattle instead of pigs and chickens and let those cattle revert to foraging in open fields that could be shared with other animals.Citing U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics, Davis says of the 8.4 billion animals killed each year for food in the United States, 8 billion are poultry and only 41 million are cows, calves, sheep and lambs. So he figures you could double the number of cattle killed each year, and lay off the chickens, and consequently save about 7.5 billion animals.But just letting cattle roam freely doesn't solve the problem either, Norris says, because other animals like coyotes and wolves would still likely be killed (just as they are today) to protect the cattle. And he still can't stand the thought of all those hamburgers.It's not a perfect world, Davis counters, but perhaps with a lot more thought and cooperation, a better alternative might be found. But unless someone comes up with a brilliant idea, whether you eat meat

Lady painting

Lady painting
Landscape painting
said. "So I think that, at first, it wasn't natural for all of us to get out there and play together. But I think we're doing a much better job." Chancellor doesn't expect to change the U.S. team's style of play in the semifinals, especially after seven straight wins. "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."than the fact our men got beat," Chancellor said. "I think that's one of the reasons we've been so focused. "It's hard to be focused when you're winning with comfortable leads, and we've been a pretty focused basketball team. No let up, no let up." Swoopes and Leslie combined

Pino Angelica painting

Pino Angelica painting
Fabian Perez white and red painting
The chubby contest takes place every year in this Tuscan town in Italy, gathering fat people from all over Italy.意大利肥胖人比赛每年在托斯卡纳地区举行一次，参赛者都是来自意大利各地区的肥妞。To compete in Miss Chubby, women have to weigh more than 220 pounds (100kg). Men hoping to have to be at least 330 pounds(150kg). This year, 40 women and five men vied for the title. 比赛规定女参赛者体重必须在100公斤以上，参赛男子体重至少在150公斤以上今年40位男性和5位女性参加了比赛。The 20-year-old Guidoni won the title of “Miss Chubby”, weighing in at 416 pounds,. 本届肥胖小姐比赛的冠军被20岁的焦万纳·圭多尼夺得，她的体重为190公斤。"The idea isn't to make fun," according to one of the organizers, "We wanted to show that the media image of perfection -- being stick-thin -- isn't the only way to get recognized." “肥胖小姐的比赛并不是寻开心，我们只是想通过比赛来把完美的形象展示给公众，苗条不是被公众认可的唯一办法，”肥胖小姐比赛活动的一组织人员说

Steve Hanks Interior View I painting

Steve Hanks Interior View I painting
Johannes Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring painting
calories have been burned. It even makes a whistle noise when a specified distance or preset duration of activity is reached. If the heady blend of sweat and semiconductors doesn't get you closer to realizing your Olympic dream, take heart: It might make you smarter. Researchers at Ohio State University recently found that exercising to music can boost brainpower, by influencing stimulating and increasing cognitive arousal while helping to organize cognitive output.
While Britney Spears' wedding ceremony with her childhood pal Jason Alexander was ultra-casual, it looks like she's really splashing out for her second wedding ensemble. The pop singer will wear...
While Britney Spears' wedding ceremony with her childhood pal Jason Alexander was ultra-casual, it looks like she's really splashing out for her second wedding ensemble.

oil painting from picture

oil painting from picture
famous painting

discussed in Stanley Coren's How Dogs Think. The phrase refers to a belief each of us has about the way others think. Simply, it says that since we are aware and self-conscious, we think others—humans and animals—are, too. There is, of course, enormous difference of opinion about whether this is true.When I used to leave my border collie Orson alone in the house, uncrated, he learned to open the refrigerator with his nose, remove certain food items, open the plastic container, and consume its contents. Then he'd squirrel away the empty packages. Everyone I told this story made the same assumptions: Orson was a wily devil taunting me for leaving him alone. We actually installed a child lock on the refrigerator door. But what changed his behavior was that I began to crate him when I went out. He has not raided the fridge since. Yet he could easily sneak in and do that while he's uncrated and I'm occupied outdoors or elsewhere in the house. Is he no longer wily? Or is he simply less anxious?(to be continued)This has been adapted from Katz on Dogs, which is being published this week.

Claude Monet Boulevard des Capucines painting

Claude Monet Boulevard des Capucines painting
Thomas Kinkade NASCAR THUNDER painting
My mother stopped her work and raised her head with surprise in her eyes. She didn’t answer immediately. Then she bowed her head and continued to sew the quilt.
　　I was very worried because I thought I had hurt her. I was in a great embarrassment and I didn’t know what I should do. But at last I heard my mother say the following words:Susan,” she said thoughtfully, “Look at this thread. Sometimes it appears, but most of it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt strong and durable. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can hardly be seen anywhere or anytime, but it’s really there. Love is inside.”　I listened carefully but I couldn’t understand her until the next spring. At that time, my father suddenly got sick seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital, they both looked very pale. It seemed both of them had had a serious illness.　After they were back, every day in the morning and dusk, my mother helped my father walk slowly on the country road. My father had never been so gentle. It seemed they were the most harmonious couple. Along the country road, there were many beautiful flowers, green grass and trees. The sun gently glistened through the leaves. All of these made up the most beautiful picture in the world

Charles Chaplin paintings

Charles Chaplin paintings
Douglas Hofmann paintings
Second reason: Because I am laid up here at Durban with the pain and trouble in my left leg. Ever since that confounded lion got hold of me I have been liable to it, and its being rather bad just now makes me limp more than ever. There must be some poison in a lion's teeth, otherwise how is it that when your wounds are healed they break out again, generally, mark you, at the same time of year that you got your mauling? It is a hard thing that when one has shot sixty-five lions, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth should chew your leg like a quid of tobacco. It breaks the routine of the thing, and, putting other considerations aside, I am an orderly man and don't like that. This is by the way.
Third reason: Because I want my boy Harry, who is over there at the hospital in London studying to become a doctor, to have something to amuse him and keep him out of mischief for a week or so. Hospital work must sometimes pall and get rather dull, for even of cutting-up dead bodies there must come satiety, and as this history won't be dull, whatever else it may be, it may put a little life into things for a day or two while he is reading it.
Fourth reason and last: Because I am going to tell the

Claude Monet Sunset painting

Claude Monet Sunset painting
Claude Monet Poppy Field In A Hollow Near Giverny painting
Very well. But I'll not promise to abide by his opinion, Anne.
This is something a man must decide for himself. My conscience would never be easy if I kept silent on the subject."
"Oh, your conscience!" moaned Anne. "I suppose that Uncle Dave has a conscience too, hasn't he?"
"Yes. But I am not the keeper of his conscience. Come, Anne, if this affair did not concern Leslie--if it were a purely abstract case, you would agree with me,--you know you would."
"I wouldn't," vowed Anne, trying to believe it herself. "Oh, you can argue all night, Gilbert, but you won't convince me. Just you ask Miss Cornelia what she thinks of it."
"You're driven to the last ditch, Anne, when you bring up Miss Cornelia as a reinforcement. She will say, `Just like a man,' and rage furiously. No matter. This is no affair for Miss Cornelia to settle. Leslie alone must decide it."

Gustav Klimt two girls with an oleander painting

Guan zeju gzj10 painting
Gustav Klimt two girls with an oleander painting
he is rather prejudiced against what he calls `these new-fangled notions of cutting and carving.' He's even opposed to operating for appendicitis."
"He's right," exclaimed Anne, with a complete change of front. `I believe myself that you modern doctors are entirely too fond of making experiments with human flesh and blood."
"Rhoda Allonby would not be a living woman today if I had been afraid of making a certain experiment," argued Gilbert. "I took the risk--and saved her life."
"I'm sick and tired of hearing about Rhoda Allonby," cried Anne--most unjustly, for Gilbert had never mentioned Mrs. Allonby's name since the day he had told Anne of his success in regard to her. And he could not be blamed for other people's discussion of it.
Gilbert felt rather hurt.

Vincent van Gogh Cafe Terrace at Night painting

Vincent van Gogh Cafe Terrace at Night painting
Eduard Manet Two Roses On A Tablecloth painting
They're old Bank of P. E. Island notes. Had them by me when the bank failed, and I had 'em framed and hung up, partly as a reminder not to put your trust in banks, and partly to give me a real luxurious, millionairy feeling. Hullo, Matey, don't be scared. You can come back now. The music and revelry is over for tonight. The old year has just another hour to stay with us. I've seen seventy-six New Years come in over that gulf yonder, Mistress Blythe."
"You'll see a hundred," said Marshall Elliott.
Captain Jim shook his head.
"No; and I don't want to--at least, I think I don't. Death grows friendlier as we grow older. Not that one of us really wants to die though, Marshall. Tennyson spoke truth when he said that. There's old Mrs. Wallace up at the Glen. She's had heaps of trouble all her life, poor soul, and she's lost almost everyone she cared about. She's always saying that she'll be glad when her time comes, and she doesn't want to sojourn any longer in this vale of tears. But when she takes a sick spell there's a fuss! Doctors from town, and a trained nurse, and enough medicine to kill a dog. Life may be a vale of tears, all right, but there are some folks who enjoy weeping, I reckon

Pablo Picasso paintings

Pablo Picasso paintings
Pierre-Auguste Cot paintings
beautified it so wholly.
They gathered gaily around the supper table. The hearth fire banished the chill of the September evening, but the window of the dining room was open and sea breezes entered at their own sweet will. The view was magnificent, taking in the harbor and the sweep of low, purple hills beyond. The table was heaped with Mrs. Doctor's delicacies but the piece de resistance was undoubtedly the big platter of sea trout.
"Thought they'd be sorter tasty after travelling," said Captain Jim. "They're fresh as trout can be, Mistress Blythe. Two hours ago they were swimming in the Glen Pond."
"Who is attending to the light tonight, Captain Jim?" asked Doctor Dave.
"Nephew Alec. He understands it as well as I do. Well, now, I'm real glad you asked me to stay to supper. I'm proper hungry--didn't have much of a dinner today."
"I believe you half starve yourself most of the time down at that light," said

Henry Peeters paintings

Henry Peeters paintings
Hessam Abrishami paintings
The hinges are on one trunk and the catch on the other. Their boughs form an arch overhead."
"Oh, I'm so glad! I couldn't live where there were no trees-- something vital in me would starve. Well, after that, there's no use asking you if there's a brook anywhere near. That would be expecting too much."
"But there is a brook--and it actually cuts across one corner of the garden."
"Then," said Anne, with a long sigh of supreme satisfaction, "this house you have found is my house of dreams and none other." pretty bridal things was temporarily shadowed; but the deeps of happiness below could not thus be disturbed; and the little stings of Mesdames Bell and Andrews were forgotten when Gilbert came later, and they wandered down to the birches of the brook, which had been saplings when Anne had come have been her son. Marilla felt that, in some strange way, his marriage with Anne would put right that old mistake. Good had come out of the evil of the ancient bitterness.
As for Anne herself, she was so happy

Yvonne Jeanette Karlsen paintings

Yvonne Jeanette Karlsen paintings
Avtandil paintings
I think," said Anne softly, "that `the land where dreams come true' is in the blue haze yonder, over that little valley."
"Have you any unfulfilled dreams, Anne?" asked Gilbert.
Something in his tone -- something she had not heard since that miserable evening in the orchard at Patty's Place -- made Anne's heart beat wildly. But she made answer lightly.
"Of course. Everybody has. It wouldn't do for us to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about. What a delicious aroma that low-descending sun is extracting from the asters and ferns. I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful."
Gilbert was not to be thus sidetracked.
"I have a dream," he said slowly. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and YOU!"
Anne wanted to speak but she could find no words. Happiness was breaking

William Bouguereau The Broken Pitcher painting

William Bouguereau The Broken Pitcher painting
John William Waterhouse Ophelia painting
Anne stepped off the train at Valley Road station and looked about to see if any one had come to meet her. She was to board with a certain Miss Janet Sweet, but she saw no one who answered in the least to her preconception of that lady, as formed from Esther's letter. The only person in sight was an elderly woman, sitting in a wagon with mail bags piled around her. Two hundred would have been a charitable guess at her weight; her face was as round and red as a harvest-moon and almost as featureless. She wore a tight, black, cashmere dress, made in the fashion of ten years ago, a little dusty black straw hat trimmed with bows of yellow ribbon, and faded black lace mits.
"Here, you," she called, waving her whip at Anne. "Are you the new Valley Road schoolma'am?"
"Yes."
"Well, I thought so. Valley Road is noted for its good-looking schoolma'ams, just as Millersville is noted for its humly ones. Janet Sweet asked me this morning if I could bring

Douglas Hofmann midnight blue painting

Douglas Hofmann midnight blue painting
Douglas Hofmann Jessica painting
You couldn't possibly be sensible and useful, Phil, so you'd better pine away and die," said Anne cruelly.
"Heartless Anne!"
"Silly Phil! You know quite well that Jonas loves you."
"But -- he won't TELL me so. And I can't MAKE him. He LOOKS it, I'll admit. But speak-to-me-only-with-thine-eyes isn't a really reliable reason for embroidering doilies and hemstitching tablecloths. I don't want to begin such work until I'm really engaged. It would be tempting Fate."
"Mr. Blake is afraid to ask you to marry him, Phil. He is poor and can't offer you a home such as you've always had. You know that is the only reason he hasn't spoken long ago."
"I suppose so," agreed Phil dolefully. "Well" -- brightening up -- "if he WON'T ask me to marry him I'll ask him, that's all. So it's bound to come right. I won't worry. By the way, Gilbert Blythe is going about constantly with Christine Stuart. Did you know?"

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Vincent van Gogh Irises painting
Steve Hanks Country Comfort painting
Who is Jonas? Just wait, Anne Shirley. You'll hear all about Jonas in the proper time and place. He is not to be mixed up with estimable old ladies.
"My left-hand neighbor at the table is Mrs. Phinney. She always speaks with a wailing, dolorous voice -- you are nervously expecting her to burst into tears every moment. She gives you the impression that life to her is indeed a vale of tears, and that a smile, never to speak of a laugh, is a frivolity truly reprehensible. She has a worse opinion of me than Aunt Jamesina, and she doesn't love me hard to atone for it, as Aunty J. does, either.
"Miss Maria Grimsby sits cati-corner from me. The first day I came I remarked to Miss Maria that it looked a little like rain -- and Miss Maria laughed. I said the road from the station was very pretty -- and Miss Maria laughed. I said there seemed to be a few mosquitoes left yet -- and Miss Maria laughed. I said that Prospect Point was as beautiful as ever -- and

Albert Bierstadt Autumn in America Oneida County New York painting

Albert Bierstadt Autumn in America Oneida County New York painting
Steve Hanks Reflecting painting
sown depths of sky. Green Gables had a very festal appearance as they drove up the lane. There was a light in every window, the glow breaking out through the darkness like flame-red blossoms swung against the dark background of the Haunted Wood. And in the yard was a brave bonfire with two gay little figures dancing around it, one of which gave an unearthly yell as the buggy turned in under the poplars.
"Davy means that for an Indian war-whoop," said Diana. "Mr. Harrison's hired boy taught it to him, and he's been practicing it up to welcome you with. Mrs. Lynde says it has worn her nerves to a frazzle. He creeps up behind her, you know, and then lets go. He was determined to have a bonfire for you, too. He's been piling up branches for a fortnight and pestering Marilla to be let pour some kerosene oil over it before setting it on fire. I guess she did, by the smell, though Mrs. Lynde said up to the last that Davy would blow himself and everybody else

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Rembrandt The Return of the Prodigal Son painting
John Collier Lady Godiva painting
black hair. He's rather too perfect -- I don't believe I'd like a perfect husband -- somebody I could never find fault with."
"Then why not marry Alonzo?" asked Priscilla gravely.
"Think of marrying a name like Alonzo!" said Phil dolefully. "I don't believe I could endure it. But he has a classic nose, and it WOULD be a comfort to have a nose in the family that could be depended on. I can't depend on mine. So far, it takes after the Gordon pattern, but I'm so afraid it will develop Byrne tendencies as I grow older. I examine it every day anxiously to make sure it's still Gordon. Mother was a Byrne and has the Byrne nose in the Byrnest degree. Wait till you see it. I adore nice noses. Your nose is awfully nice, Anne Shirley. Alonzo's nose nearly turned the balance in his favor. But ALONZO! No, I couldn't decide. If I could have done as I did with the hats -- stood them both up together, shut my eyes, and jabbed with a hatpin -- it would have been quite easy."

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Leon Bazile Perrault paintings
Leon-Augustin L'hermitte paintings
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got pretty mixed up while I was keeping bachelor's hall, I admit, but I'd got a woman to come in and clean it up before I was married and there'd been considerable painting and fixing done. I tell you if you took Emily into a brand new white marble palace she'd be into the scrubbing as soon as 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 sat Mr. Harrison in his working clothes, which on Friday had been noted for sundry rents and tatters but which were now neatly patched and brushed. He was sprucely shaved and what little hair he had was carefully trimmed.
"Sit down, Anne, sit down," said Mr. Harrison in a tone but two degrees removed from that which Avonlea people used at funerals. "Emily's

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Ford Madox Brown paintings
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But people have sown their oats over again," said Anne comfortingly, "and Mr. Harrison says he thinks if we have a good summer they will come out all right though late. And my annuals are all coming up again . . .but oh, nothing can replace the June lilies. Poor little Hester Gray will have none either. I went all the way back to her garden last night but there wasn't one. I'm sure she'll miss them."
"I don't think it's right for you to say such things, Anne, I really don't," said Marilla severely. "Hester Gray has been dead for thirty years and her spirit is in heaven. . .I hope."
"Yes, but I believe she loves and remembers her garden here still," said Anne. "I'm sure no matter how long I'd lived in heaven I'd like to look down and see somebody putting flowers on my grave. If I had had a garden here like Hester Gray's it would take me more than thirty years, even in heaven, to forget being homesick for it by spells."
"Well, don't let the twins hear you talking like that," was Marilla's feeble protest

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William Merritt Chase paintings
William Blake paintings
rebukes Davy-ward. In this instance, Davy, sad to relate, not being able to scoop up the last drops of his syrup with his spoon, had solved the difficulty by lifting his plate in both hands and applying his small pink tongue to it. Anne looked at him with such horrified eyes that the little sinner turned red and said, half shamefacedly, half defiantly,
"There ain't any wasted that way."
"People who are different from other people are always called peculiar," said Anne. "And Miss Lavendar is certainly different, though it's hard to say just where the difference comes in. Perhaps it is because she is one of those people who never grow old."
"One might as well grow old when all your generation do," said Marilla, rather reckless of her pronouns. "If you don't, you don't fit in anywhere. Far as I can learn Lavendar

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her to inform the Society that he was not going to rent his fences to the Patent Medicine Company.
Jane and Diana stared as if they found it hard to believe their ears. Parliamentary etiquette, which was generally very strictly enforced in the A.V.I.S., forbade them giving instant vent to their curiosity, but after the Society adjourned Anne was besieged for explanations. Anne had no explanation to give. Judson Parker had overtaken her on the road the preceding evening and told her that he had decided to humor the A.V.I.S. in its peculiar prejudice against patent medicine advertisements. That was all Anne would say, then or ever afterwards, and it was the simple truth; but when Jane Andrews, on her way home, confided to Oliver Sloane her firm belief that there was more behind Judson Parker's mysterious change of heart than Anne Shirley had revealed, she spoke the truth also.
Anne had been down to old Mrs. Irving's on the shore road the preceding evening and had come home

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contemporary abstract painting
I don't see that there is anything else for us to do," said Marilla rather grimly, although she felt a secret relief. "Anyhow they're not so much trouble as they were. . .or else we've got used to them. Davy has improved a great deal."
"His manners are certainly much better," said Anne cautiously, as if she were not prepared to say as much for his morals.
Anne had come home from school the previous evening, to find Marilla away at an Aid meeting, Dora asleep on the kitchen sofa, and Davy in the sitting room closet, blissfully absorbing the contents of a jar of Marilla's famous yellow plum preserves. . . "company jam," Davy called it. . .which he had been forbidden to touch. He looked very guilty when Anne pounced on him and whisked him out of the closet.
"Davy Keith, don't you know that it is very wrong of you

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childe hassam Geraniums painting
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida El bano del caballo [The Horse's Bath] painting
Where can she be?" said Anne miserably.
"Maybe she's tumbled into the well," suggested Davy cheerfully.
Anne and Marilla looked fearfully into each other's eyes. The thought had been with them both through their entire search but neither had dared to put it into words.
"She. . .she might have," whispered Marilla.
Anne, feeling faint and sick, went to the wellbox and peered over. The bucket sat on the shelf inside. Far down below was a tiny glimmer of still water. The Cuthbert well was the deepest in Avonlea. If Dora. . .but Anne could not face the idea. She shuddered and turned away.
"Run across for Mr. Harrison," said Marilla, wringing her hands.
"Mr. Harrison and John Henry are both away. . .they went to town today. I'll go for Mr. Barry."
Mr. Barry came back with Anne, carrying a coil of rope to which was attached a claw-like instrument that had

William Merritt Chase Chase Summertime painting

William Merritt Chase Chase Summertime painting
Albert Bierstadt Bavarian Landscape painting
on earth could such a mistake have happened?" wailed Diana.
The blame of this unmerciful disaster was eventually narrowed down to the Pyes. The Improvers had decided to use Morton-Harris paints and the Morton-Harris paint cans were numbered according to a color card. A purchaser chose his shade on the card and ordered by the accompanying number. Number 147 was the shade of green desired and when Mr. Roger Pye sent word to the Improvers by his son, John Andrew, that he was going to town and would get their paint for them, the Improvers told John Andrew to tell his father to get 147. John Andrew always averred that he did so, but Mr. Roger Pye as stanchly declared that John Andrew told him 157; and there the matter stands to this day.
That night there was blank dismay in every Avonlea house where

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti paintings
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hired the man to run his mill. They belong down east and nobody knows anything about them. Then that shiftless Timothy Cotton family are going to move up from White Sands and they'll simply be a burden on the public. He is in consumption. . .when he isn't stealing. . . and his wife is a slack-twisted creature that can't turn her hand to a thing. She washes her dishes sitting down. Mrs. George Pye has taken her husband's orphan nephew, Anthony Pye. He'll be going to school to you, Anne, so you many expect trouble, that's what. And you'll have another strange pupil, too. Paul Irving is coming from the States to live with his grandmother. You remember his father, Marilla. . .Stephen Irving, him that jilted Lavendar Lewis over at Grafton?"
"I don't think he jilted her. There was a quarrel. . .I suppose there was blame on both sides."
"Well, anyway, he didn't marry her, and she's been as queer as possible ever since, they say. . .living all