Michelangelo Buonarroti Creation of Adam detail painting

Michelangelo Buonarroti Creation of Adam detail paintingPierre Auguste Renoir The First Outing paintingPierre Auguste Renoir Les baigneuses painting
ever inhaled: Somehow it reminded him simultaneously of treacle tart, the woody smell of a broomstick handle, and something flowery he thought he might have smelled at the Burrow. He found that he was breathing very slowly and deeply and that the potion's fumes seemed to be filling him up like drink. A great contentment stole over him; he grinned across at Ron, who grinned back lazily.
"Now then, now then, now then," said Slughorn, whose massive outline was quivering through the many shimmering vapors. "Scales out, everyone, and potion kits, and don't forget your copies
of Advanced Potion-Making. . . ."
"Sir?" said Harry, raising his hand.
"Harry, m'boy?"
"I haven't got a book or scales or anything - nor's Ron - we didn't realize we'd be able to do the N.E.W.T., you see -"

Joseph Mallord William Turner Portsmouth painting

Joseph Mallord William Turner Portsmouth paintingJoseph Mallord William Turner The Slave Ship paintingJoseph Mallord William Turner Rainbow painting
Exactly," said Harry, but he could nor press the point, because so many people were trying to listen in to his conversation, not to mention staring at him and whispering behind their hands.
"It's rude to point," Ron snapped at a particularly minuscule first-year boy as they joined the queue to climb out of the portrait hole. The boy, who had been muttering something about Harry behind his hand to his friend, promptly turned scarlet and toppled out of the hole in alarm. Ron sniggered. "I love being a sixth year. And were going to be getting free time this year. Whole periods when we can just sit up here and relax."
"We're going to need that time for studying, Ron!" said Hermione, as they set off down the corridor.
"Yeah, but not today," said Ron. "Today's going to be a real loss, I reckon."

Thomas Kinkade Footprints in the sand painting

Thomas Kinkade Footprints in the sand painting
Thomas Kinkade Christmas Cottage painting
Screams, a blaze of green light on every side: Hagrid gave a yell and the motorbike rolled over. Harry lost any sense of where they were. Streetlights above him, yells around him, he was clinging to the sidecar for dear life. Hedwig's cage, the Firebolt, and his rucksack slipped from beneath his knees –

"No – HELP!"

　　　The broomstick spun too, but he just managed to seize the strap of his rucksack and the top of the cage as the motorbike swung the right way up again. A second's relief, and then another burst of green light. The owl screeched and fell to the floor of the cage.

William Bouguereau The Broken Pitcher painting

William Bouguereau The Broken Pitcher painting
William Bouguereau Love Takes Flight painting
"So this time, when you leave, there'll be no going back, and the charm will break the moment you get outside its range. We're choosing to break it early, because the alternative is waiting for You-Know-Who to come and seize you the moment you turn seventeen.

　　　"The one thing we've got on our side is that You-Know-Who doesn't know we're moving you tonight. We've leaked a fake trail to the Ministry: They think you're not leaving until the thirtieth. However, this is You-Know-Who we're dealing with, so we can't rely on him getting the date wrong; he's bound to have a couple of Death Eaters patrolling the skies in this general area, just in case. So, we've given a dozen different houses every protection we can throw at them. They all look like they could be the place we're going to hide

Edmund Blair Leighton The Accolade painting

Edmund Blair Leighton The Accolade painting
Edmund Blair Leighton The End of The Song painting
sound of wrenching metal. Harry saw the Death Eaters swerve out of sight to avoid the deadly trail of flame,

and at the same time felt the sidecar sway ominously: Its metal connections to the bike had splintered with the force of acceleration.

　　　"It's all righ', Harry!" bellowed Hagrid, now thrown flat onto the back by the surge of speed; nobody was steering now, and the sidecar was starting to twist violently in the bike's slipstream.

　　　"I'm on it, Harry, don' worry!" Hagrid yelled, and from inside his jacket pocket he pulled his flowery pink umbrella.

"Hagrid! No! Let me!"

Caravaggio Amor Vincit Omnia painting

Caravaggio Amor Vincit Omnia painting
Raphael Saint George and the Dragon painting
Results Among the 3 staging systems, the Pittsburgh Modified TNM Criteria showed the best stratification of patients with different prognosis. The overall survival rates of the patients at the Pittsburgh modified TNM stage I, II, III, and IV were 94.4%, 83.3%, 58.2%, and 36.8% at 1 year, and 79.4%, 62.5%, 26.2%, and 10.5% at 3 years, respectively. For those patients exceeding the Milan Criteria, the patients at Pittsburgh stages I and II had a significant higher survival rate than those at Pittsburgh stages III and IV (P<0.001).Conclusions The Pittsburgh Modified TNM Criteria is a more reliable postoperative staging system than the UICC pTNM staging system for HCC patients receiving OLT. As providing more accurate prognostic classification, it could be reasonable to combine the Milan Criteria for recipient selection.
Chinese Medical

Godward Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder painting

Godward Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder painting
John William Waterhouse Echo and Narcissus painting
Howe, Senator Kennedy, my fellow Americans,Since this campaign began, I have had a very rare privilege: I have traveled to 48 of the 50 states, and in my travels, I've learned what the people of the United States are thinking about. There is one issue that stands out above all the rest, one in which every American is concerned, regardless of what group he may be a member and regardless of where he may live. And that issue very simply stated is this: how can we keep the peace? Keep it without surrender. How can we extend freedom? Extend it without warNow in determining how we deal with this issue, we must find the answer to a very important, but simple question: who threatens the peace? Who threatens

Andrew Atroshenko Just for Love painting

Andrew Atroshenko Just for Love painting
Edward Hopper Sunday painting
reviewing stand. All eyes turned upwards as six Egyptian Mirage jets roared over the reviewing stand, pulling up sharply in acrobatic rolls and turns that left plumes of red, white, blue and yellow smoke in their wake. It was just then 12:40 P.M. local time----that Associated Press photographer William Foley said, “All hell broke loose.”From a truck towing an artillery piece in the parade, a group of soldiers----one of them bareheaded----began firing what appeared, from photographs, to be Soviet-made AK-47automatic rifles. “I thought it was part of the show at first,” said AP reporter Steve Hindy. One of the soldiers jumped from the truck and lobbed a grenade at the reviewing stand. Others joined him. They

Frida Kahlo The Broken Column painting

Frida Kahlo The Broken Column painting
Frida Kahlo Self Portrait painting

Pop superstar George Michael was named on Wednesday as the buyer of John Lennon's piano, paying 1.45 million pound ($2.1 million) in order to keep the piece of entertainment folklore in Britain.
"We can confirm that George Michael has bid successfully for John Lennon's piano,'' a spokeswoman told Reuters. She said that Michael, 37, had not taken part personally in Tuesday's transatlantic auction. "He decided to do this because the piano was a part of music history, and because he wanted it to remain in Britain.'' Lennon composed "Imagine'' on the walnut upright, which Steinway has authenticated as the one he bought in 1970 for around 1,000 pounds. The former Beatle was murdered in New York by Mark David Chapman on December 8, 1980. Chapman was denied parole earlier this month.

Leighton Flaming June painting

Leighton Flaming June painting
Raphael La Belle Jardiniere painting
word processor, presentation programs and others and just to surf the Web. It happened when Intel and its rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE:AMD) crossed the 1 gigahertz threshold, it happened at 850 MHz, at 500 and so on. Yet at every speed grade -- partly because Intel controls 90 percent of the microprocessor market and PC makers must buy the chips that Intel is offering -- consumers and corporations do end up buying the faster chips. And, eventually, software programs that take advantage of the faster chips from both Intel and AMD start to populate the market. PCs packing the Pentium 4 won't be cheap, either. Try in the neighborhood of $2,500 initially -- without a monitor -- estimated analyst Roger Kay at International Data Corp. But those prices will drop significantly by the middle of next year, analysts said, because Intel will be producing the chips in larger volumes, allowing it to lower prices. The first Pentium 4 chips will run at 1.4 gigahertz and 1.5 gigahertz, with plenty of headroom for higher speeds, Intel said.

Edward Hopper Nighthawks painting

Edward Hopper Nighthawks painting
Frederic Edwin Church Sunset painting
other downgrades, Wall Street powerhouse Morgan Stanley Dean Witter said it had cut its rating on semiconductor maker Analog Devices Inc. (NYSE:ADI). Analog shares fell 8 percent, $4-3/16 to $47 on the New York Stock Exchange. Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget downgraded Internet infrastructure supplier Inktomi Corp. (NasdaqNM:INKT) due to slower- than-expected spending by customers. Inktomi, also cut by Robertson Stephens, dropped to its lowest level in more than two years, and finished the session down $3-5/16 at $14-9/16. Telecom equipment maker Ciena Corp. (NasdaqNM:CIEN), down $15-3/8 at $65-7/8, and Internet gear maker Juniper Networks (NasdaqNM:JNPR), off $23-1

Francisco de Goya Nude Maja painting

Francisco de Goya Nude Maja painting
Berthe Morisot Boats on the Seine painting
Fourth-quarter earnings are due out in the middle of the month. Warnings from some companies about those numbers have pushed stock prices lower, but the market could still react negatively to the actual results."My sense is that maybe if you can meet your fourth-quarter numbers, we'll be OK," said Nick Sargen, a market strategist for J.P. Morgan.There's also the January effect, the tendency of the market to rise at the beginning of the month as the previous tax year ends and investors stop selling stocks for tax purposes.But nothing is a sure thing.Although the consensus is that the Fed will lower interest rates at the end of

Claude Monet paintings

Claude Monet paintings
Charles Chaplin paintings
report released today says too often children who wind up in jail had mental health problems that went unnoticed or untreated until too late. Fewer than one in five children get treatment for any mental health problems, the report adds."If children can't learn, can't develop appropriately, then it's going to interfere with their whole life," said Surgeon General David Satcher. "Clearly it is a crisis."Satcher's newest call adds to his report a year ago declaring mental disorders a major undertreated problem for adults and children. It comes amid a recent backlash against one prominent childhood problem, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Lawsuits charge ADHD is overdiagnosed to push the drug Ritalin to children who merely are rambunctious. There is some overtreatment, but also "there are many children who could benefit from medications as well as behavioral treatment," Satcher said, identifying ADHD and depression as leading mental disorders affecting children.According to the report:

Hunting paintings

Hunting paintings
impressionist painting

The Nasdaq composite index tumbled to its lowest close since 1998 Tuesday on fears that the fast-weakening economy will further erode corporate profits.
　　The Nasdaq composite index tumbled to its lowest close since 1998 Tuesday on fears that the fast-weakening economy will further erode corporate profits.　　Fresh data showed that consumer confidence fell, new home sales slipped, and orders for big-ticket items dropped. The news gave stock investors, already hit by slowing earnings, another reason to sell.　　"It confirms the weakness in the economy, and that's not good for the market," John Forelli, senior vice president at Independence Investment Advisors, said of the soft economic data.

Flamenco Dancer paintings

Flamenco Dancer paintings
Franz Marc paintings
the idea is interesting precisely because his approach to film-making has been so varied. He began an arthouse darling, winning the Palme D’Or at Cannes with sex, lies and videotape - the movie which spawned a million headlines, made the careers of James Spader and Andie MacDowell, and put down a marker about his approach to film. Much to the disappointment of those who mistook it for a skin movie, sex, lies and videotape was actually all about talk and ideas. Then, as now, such an approach cut through Hollywood orthodoxy, but it did so with such confidence that, for a moment, Soderbergh seemed to have the world at his feet. What he chose to do with this freedom was interesting. He followed his muse. He made the films he wanted to. He disappeared from the radar screens. His unseen movies could fill a shelf in Blockbuster, except that they would never order them in the first place. So, where did it all go right? The film Soderbergh chose to examine for the New York Times was All the President’s Men, Alan J Pakula’s dramatic reconstruction of the Watergate scandal. As a teenager in Baton Rouge, Soderbergh saw the film about ten times, going first as a Dustin Hoffman fan and emerging into the light as a boy with an idea about how difficult stories could be projected

Fabian Perez Flamenco DancerII painting

Fabian Perez Flamenco DancerII painting
Edward Hopper Ground Swell painting
resulted in losses of $7 million. 'It Is a Global Problem'According to Tim Parsons of the City of London Police, organized crime gangs from the Continent and Eastern Europe, Asia, Russia and Africa, are targeting central London because of the thousands of people who visit daily. “Tourists areas are especially being hit because they tend to be easy targets,” added Parson. “People normally always have credit cards on them.” But while card details are often stolen in Britain, experts say the cloned cards are used all over Europe, the Middle East, Asia and America.“The rapid growth in counterfeit fraud is not a U.K.-based problem, it is a global problem,” says Brian Moore of Europay, the European arm of MasterCard International. “Coupled with the fact that fraud is no longer an opportunist crime but an organized crime, people need to be very aware of where their card is at all times.”

Vincent van Gogh Cafe Terrace at Night painting

Vincent van Gogh Cafe Terrace at Night painting
Eduard Manet Two Roses On A Tablecloth painting
Early that morning, a group of Colombian guerrillas stormed into Weber's camp, looking for Americans to kidnap. What followed was the worst day of Weber's life. "I get up and answer the door," he says. "And when I do, there's a fellow standing there in a camouflage uniform holding a gun, looking at me, asking me, 'Are you American?'" Between 15 and 20 armed bandits forced everyone in the camp to stand in an execution-style lineup. "I thought, 'They're going to make [us] an example, they're going to kill us,'" he recalls. The kidnappers ordered Weber and others to pack some clothes and get into the back of a truck. They drove to a nearby camp, where other hostages were also being held at gunpoint.

Gustav Klimt Death and Life painting

Gustav Klimt Death and Life painting
Alexandre Cabanel Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners painting
to good labels, with high-end, export-quality spirits selling at the equivalent of around $5.Sellers have a fairly hefty supply of all brands with the “old” markings, which they have to get rid of by Sept. 1, after which only the double-marked bottles will be legal.But there may be a more-than-usual interest in alcohol purchases toward the end of the week, as Russia prepares to celebrate major annual holidays through June 12. And some small retailers are already taking advantage of shortage rumors, however, pulling most of the popular cheap brands off the shelves and offering more expensive vodkas to customers in order to diminish the risk of being left with the expensive product unsold.Either way, it seems highly unlikely that Russians will rise in arms against Vladimir Putin, although they may soon be less inclined to raise their glasses to toast their president, as one inevitable result of all the confusion is widely expected to be a hike in prices of this country’s favorite drink.

Anders Zorn paintings

Anders Zorn paintings
Anne-Francois-Louis Janmot paintings
This is a difficult area for scientists to study, because they can't put their instruments 150 miles below the ground, so they are left with indirect ways of studying it, such as rocks heaved to the surface during a violent eruption long, long ago. But there is one tool that lends itself well to determining what lies so far beneath the surface — earthquakes.When a fault moves, it sends out seismic shock waves that travel clear through the Earth. By measuring the time it takes those waves to travel through certain areas, scientists are able to create images through a process known as "seismic tomography," which is actually quite similar to CAT scans used in medical imaging.But since seismic stations are normally spread all over the planet, usually at great distances from each other, the images are very low in resolution, offering researchers the big picture, but few details.

Arthur Hughes paintings

Arthur Hughes paintings
Albert Bierstadt paintings
They exist in places as familiar as Spain and as far away as Samoa in the South Pacific.They are also a part of countries as isolated as Bhutan, the "hermit kingdom" atop the Himalayas and as cosmopolitan as Belgium, headquarters for NATO and the European Union.There are also differences in the nature of monarchies and the degree to which rulers hold power: Some are absolute monarchs, others share power in constitutional monarchies, and still others are mere ornaments of state.The Future of the House of WindsorBritain, host to the world's most famous royals, is a constitutional monarchy. There's little question that the House of Windsor has lost much of its luster since the death in 1997 of Princess Diana.But Diana and her troubled marriage to Prince Charles weren't the only causes of the downward spiral. The antics of "Fergie," now ex-wife of Prince

sunset painting

sunset painting
Tropical paintings
some beautiful twist of fate I've landed in this vocation that demands that I feel and helps me to learn," said the 31-year-old actress, who made her debut in 1984's Once Upon a Time in America.."No film has moved or taught me more than A Beautiful Mind."Connelly also thanked Alicia Nash, whom she descrbed as "a true champion of love."Another first-time winner was Beautiful director Ron Howard, who had helmed several Hollywood blockbusters, including Apollo 13 and Cocoon.In one of the biggest surprises of the evening, Jim Broadbent won the best supporting actor Oscar for his role as the husband of novelist Iris Murdoch in Iris. Another British actor, Ian McKellen, had been heavily favored for his work as the wizard Gandalf in Lord of the Rings. McKellen was the only actor from the fantasy blockbuster to earn a nomination.Stars Return to Glamour

Tropical paintings

Tropical paintings
Venice paintings
citizens against non-essential visits and 12 countries had imposed entry restrictions on Taiwan nationals. EU health ministers meeting in Brussels called for unstinting efforts to curb SARS but were split on whether to screen travellers on arrival in Europe or departure from SARS-hit countries. A statement stressed the need for consistent measures throughout the EU "to provide and acquire information and traceability of international travellers arriving or in transit from affected areas." "We've got to be on the lookout," said Greek Health minister Kostas Stefanis, whose country currently holds the EU presidency. The United States trumpeted a success in containing SARS after no new cases were reported in the previous 24 hours. There are currently 65 probable cases of SARS in the US and 255 suspected

Pierre-Auguste Cot The Storm painting

Gustav Klimt Three Ages of Woman - Mother and Child (Detail) painting
Pierre-Auguste Cot The Storm painting udies have shown that surgical residents trained on simulators made fewer errors and operated more quickly than those who got the traditional "See one, do one, teach one" training, in which residents observe experienced doctors, do procedures under supervision and then independently, and later train others. He also admits it's not always the easiest decision to uphold. "There's a lot of times where you can kind of get caught up in the moment, a lot times I'll just kind of rub it or see it and it will remind me of the commitment that I made with my girlfriend," said Shooter. When the teens take the pledge they're not making it alone. They can go to a rock concert event sponsored by Silver Ring Thing, with loud music, flashy lights and the chance to buy T-shirts and other memorabilia to generate enthusiasm for their pledgeDo their pledges stick? A Columbia University study of 12,000 teens found 88 percent of those who took an abstinence pledge had sex before marriage. And those who did were 20 percent less likely to use a condom. But The Silver Ring Thing's director, Denny Pattyn, is convinced his message of faith, purity and chastity will hit home.

Rembrandt Rembrandt night watch painting

Rembrandt Rembrandt night watch painting
Michelangelo Buonarroti Creation of Adam hand painting
It includes real-time images, sound and information from an electronic web of over 1,000 high-resolution and infrared cameras, 12 patrol boats, 4,000 vehicles, nine helicopters, a sensor-laden blimp and four mobile command centres."The advancement of technology is very important," Ikonomou said. "The system allows the users to manage a critical incident in the best way possible and in the shortest time possible because they have all the information in front of them.This High School Senior is an accomplished writer of poetry and children’s books. She hopes to attend New York University.这为美国的高中生是一个成功的诗歌作家还写过许多儿童的书籍。她想上美国纽约大学。Entrants competed in three categories — swimsuit, evening gown and interview.选手们有三项比赛项目：泳装、晚礼服以及最后的访谈。

Francois Boucher paintings

Francois Boucher paintings
Frank Dicksee paintings
2003 to "research and write articles for hunting and fishing magazines describing the benefits of NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Service) programs."Three articles by the writer, Dave Smith, appeared late last year in two magazines aimed at hunting fattest nation in the world, with 61 percent of adults and children weighing in at overweight junkie: His one-hour TV reality show 30 Days, which premiered June 15th on the cable channel FX. In the series, an individual takes up a completely different lifestyle -- whether religious, economic, or ethnic -- for 30 days.) much healthier if you start piling your plate with dark, leafy greens or sweet potatoes family history influences your love life, you can start to break old patterns that may be interfering with true romance. Here are common examsay “Daddy’s little princess?” Mom and Dad gave you a great life: Tons of attentionples—and how to

childe hassam paintings

childe hassam paintings
Cheri Blum paintings
For the man in the middle, the endgame is a critical test of leadership. With an eye on a presidential run in 2008, Frist will need the party's conservative base. But he also can't afford the stigma of presiding over a Senate that no longer works, should a partisan breakdown follow Republican efforts to push court nominees through."For the conservative movement from the grass-roots up, this is an absolutely essential battle to win," says Richard Lessner, executive director of the American Conservative Union. "It's a test Senator Frist simply has to pass if he is coming calling at the doors of conservatives in 2008."Passing that test won't be easy. Navigating the nuclear option - a rule change that prevents Democrats from filibustering to prevent a majority of senators from approving judicial nominees - is fraught with uncertainties. The best-case scenario for Frist is to play the hero for conservative voters, saving the nation's courts from activist judges - and Democratic "obstructionists."

oil painting from picture

oil painting from picture
the benches in the window. “It is right next to my flat, which is in the building where I grew up, and my mother is still there, on the first floor, and my brother is on the third floor, and it is right near my children’s school [she has two teenage sons] and near a hospital, so if anyone was ever sick I spent a lot of time in here waiting, and it isn’t too far from my office, and it is open all day and very late, every day. It’s not so fashionable; this isn’t a very trendy neighbourhood, it’s more professionals and traditional, but that’s nice, no?”In other words, with Prada bars, as with Prada clothes and Prada herself, you can enjoy the surface, but the experience is made deeper - richer even - if you know the context. As it turns out, Bar Quadronno is not only personally resonant, but convenient. The reason we are squeezing in a coffee (to be specific, a caffe shakerato: an iced coffee with sugar) as opposed to a fully fledged lunch, is that Prada is deep in the midst of designing her recent spring/ summer 2006 woman’s collection

Douglas Hofmann Jessica painting

Douglas Hofmann Jessica painting
Pino Tuscan Stroll painting
of eyes as you finish each thought. When speaking one-on-one, maintain eye contact with your partner by looking from one eye to the other—not with the swinging regularity of a metronome, but as though you were planting a message in each eye. This will not only make your eyes sparkle, but also touch the listener and make you appear sincere. 8. Never look desperate: If you come across as needy, subservient, or too eager to make a good impression, people will become uncomfortable—even recoil. Believe you are worthy. As much as you want to land the job or make the sale, seem as if you’re asking for nothing. 9. Have enthusiasm: Enter the room radiating energy and purpose. As former actor and Nobel Prize winning play and screenwriter David Mamet said, You should go on stage as if to a hot date, not as if to give blood. 10. Make graceful exits: And finally, if you want to be brought back for a second or third curtain call, exit on a high note—and always leave them wanting more! We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. 1. You are not a superman. 2. If it’s stupid but works, it isn’t stupid. 3. Don’t look conspicuous—it draws fire. 4. Never share a foxhole with any one braver than you are. 5. Never forget that the lowest bidder made your weapon. 6. If your attack is going really well, it’s an ambush. 7. All five-second grenade fuses will burn down in three seconds. 8. Try to look unimportant because bad guys may be low on ammo. 9. If you are forward of your position, the artillery will fall short. 10. The enemy diversion you are ignoring is the main attack. 11. The important things are always simple. 12. The simple

Benjamin Williams Leader paintings

Benjamin Williams Leader paintings
Bartolome Esteban Murillo paintings
Between us there was, as I have already said somewhere, the bond of the sea. Besides holding our hearts together through long periods of separation, it had the effect of making us tolerant of each other’s yarns - and even convictions. The Lawyer - the best of old fellows - had, because of his many years and many virtues, the only cushion on deck, and was lying on the only rug. The Accountant had brought out already a box of dominoes, and was toying architecturally with the bones. Marlow sat cross-legged right aft, leaning against the mizzenmast. He had sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight back, an ascetic aspect, and, with his arms dropped, the palms of hands outwards, resembled an idol. The Director, satisfied the anchor had good hold, made his way aft and sat down amongst us. We exchanged a few words lazily. Afterwards there was silence on board the yacht. For some reason or other we did not begin that game of dominoes. We felt meditative, and fit for nothing but placid staring. The day was ending in a serenity of still and exquisite brilliance. The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marsh was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds. Only the gloom to the west, brooding over the upper reaches, became more sombre every minute, as if angered by the approach of the sun.
And at last, in its curved and imperceptible fall, the sun sank low, and from glowing white

William Merritt Chase Chase Summertime painting

William Merritt Chase Chase Summertime painting
Albert Bierstadt Bavarian Landscape painting
ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do. I agree with the doctor. If there's a chance for Dick, Leslie should be told of it. There's no two sides to that, in my opinion."
"Well," said Anne, giving up in despair, "wait until Miss Cornelia gets after you two men."
"Cornelia'll rake us fore and aft, no doubt," assented Captain Jim. "You women are lovely critters, Mistress Blythe, but you're just a mite illogical. You're a highly eddicated lady and Cornelia isn't, but you're like as two peas when it comes to that. I dunno's you're any the worse for it. Logic is a sort of hard, merciless thing, I reckon. Now, I'll brew a cup of tea and we'll drink it and talk of pleasant things, jest to calm our minds a bit."

Salvador Dali The Rose painting

Salvador Dali The Rose painting
Vincent van Gogh Cafe Terrace at Night painting
Gilbert laid down the ponderous medical tome over which he had been poring until the increasing dusk of the March evening made him desist. He leaned back in his chair and gazed meditatively out of the window. It was early spring--probably the ugliest time of the year. Not even the sunset could redeem the dead, sodden landscape and rotten black harbor ice upon which he looked. No sign of life was visible, save a big black crow winging his solitary way across a leaden field. Gilbert speculated idly concerning that crow. Was he a family crow, with a black but comely crow wife awaiting him in the woods beyond the Glen? Or was he a glossy young buck of a crow on courting thoughts intent? Or was he a cynical bachelor crow, believing that he travels the fastest who travels alone? Whatever he was, he soon disappeared in congenial gloom and Gilbert turned to the cheerier view indoors.
The firelight flickered from point to point, gleaming on the white and green coats of Gog and Magog, on the sleek, brown head of the beautiful setter basking on the

Claude Monet Winter At Giverny painting

Claude Monet Winter At Giverny painting
Claude Monet Train In The Country painting
The ice in the harbor grew black and rotten in the March suns; in April there were blue waters and a windy, white-capped gulf again; and again the Four Winds light begemmed the twilights.
"I'm so glad to see it once more," said Anne, on the first evening of its reappearance. "I've missed it so all winter. The northwestern sky has seemed blank and lonely without it."
The land was tender with brand-new, golden-green, baby leaves. There was an emerald mist on the woods beyond the Glen. The seaward valleys were full of fairy mists at dawn.
Vibrant winds came and went with salt foam in their breath. The sea laughed and flashed and preened and allured, like a beautiful, coquettish woman. The herring schooled and the fishing village woke to life. The harbor was alive with white sails making for the channel. The ships began to sail outward and inward again.
"On a spring day like this," said Anne, "I know exactly what my soul will feel like on the resurrection morning."

Jehan Georges Vibert paintings

Jehan Georges Vibert paintings
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot paintings
I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes-- when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables--when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had--when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy."
But tonight our lovers thought only of joy and never of sorrow. For the morrow was their wedding day, and their house of dreams awaited them on the misty, going to be married?"
"Oh, I told them. I was there last week. And they were so interested. Two days ago Miss Patty wrote me a note asking me to call; andto go anyhow, but I'd like to have your consent,' he just says, `Suit yourself, Charlotta, and you'll suit me.' That's a real pleasant kind of husband to have, Miss Shirley, ma'am."
Philippa and her Reverend Jo arrived

Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger paintings

Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger paintings
Guillaume Seignac paintings
No. I know what I can do. I can write pretty, fanciful little sketches that children love and editors send welcome cheques for. But I can do nothing big. My only chance for earthly immortality is a corner in your Memoirs."
Charlotta the Fourth had discarded the blue bows but her freckles were not noticeably less.
"I never did think I'd come down to marrying a Yankee, Miss Shirley, ma'am," she said. "But you never know what's before you, and it isn't his fault. He was born that way."
"You're a Yankee yourself, Charlotta, since you've married one."
"Miss Shirley, ma'am, I'm not! And I wouldn't be if I was to marry a dozen Yankees! Tom's kind of nice. And besides, I thought I'd better not be too hard to please, for I mightn't get another chance. Tom don't drink and he don't growl because he has to work between meals, and when all's said and done I'm satisfied, Miss Shirley, ma'am."
"Does he call you Leonora?" asked Anne.

Cheri Blum paintings

Cheri Blum paintings
Camille Pissarro paintings
There isn't any one to have. You and Phil and Priscilla and Jane all stole a march on me in the matter of marriage; and Stella is teaching in Vancouver. I have no other `kindred soul' and I won't have a bridesmaid who isn't."
"But you are going to wear a veil, aren't you?" asked Diana, anxiously.
"Yes, indeedy. I shouldn't feel like a bride without one. I remember telling Matthew, that evening when he brought me to Green Gables, that I never expected to be a bride because I was so homely no one would ever want to marry me--unless some foreign missionary did. I had an idea then that foreign missionaries couldn't afford to be finicky in the matter of looks if they wanted a girl to risk her life among cannibals. You should have seen the foreign missionary Priscilla married. He was as handsome and inscrutable as those daydreams we once planned to marry ourselves, Diana; he was the best dressed man I ever met, and he raved over Priscilla's `ethereal, golden beauty.' But

Berthe Morisot Boats on the Seine painting

Berthe Morisot Boats on the Seine painting
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres The Grande Odalisque painting
Wait till your turn comes, Miss Anne. Oh, Anne, I hear father coming upstairs. Give me my bouquet. Is my veil right? Am I very pale?"
"You look just lovely. Di, darling, kiss me good-bye for the last time. Diana Barry will never kiss me again."
"Diana Wright will, though. There, mother's calling. Come."
Following the simple, old-fashioned way in vogue then, Anne went down to the parlor on Gilbert's arm. They met at the top of the stairs for the first time since they had left Kingsport, for Gilbert had arrived only that day. Gilbert shook hands courteously. He was looking very well, though, as Anne instantly noted, rather thin. He was not pale; there was a flush on his cheek that had burned into it as Anne came along the hall towards him, in her soft, white dress with lilies-of-the-valley in the shining masses of her hair. As they entered the crowded parlor together a little murmur of admiration ran around the room. "What a fine-looking pair they are," whispered the impressible Mrs. Rachel to Marilla.
Fred ambled in alone, with a very red face, and then Diana swept in on her father's

Tamara de Lempicka Adam and Eve painting

Tamara de Lempicka Adam and Eve painting
Claude Monet The Road To Chailly painting
two years ago. I've been in Europe ever since. Now I've come back to finish my Arts course."
"This is my Junior year, too," said Anne.
"So we are classmates as well as collegemates. I am reconciled to the loss of the years that the locust has eaten," said her companion, with a world of meaning in those wonderful eyes of his.
The rain came steadily down for the best part of an hour. But the time seemed really very short. When the clouds parted and a burst of pale November sunshine fell athwart the harbor and the pines Anne and her companion walked home together. By the time they had reached the gate of Patty's Place he had asked permission to call, and had received it. Anne went in with cheeks of flame and her heart beating to her fingertips. Rusty, who climbed into her lap and tried to kiss her, found a very absent welcome. Anne, with her soul full of romantic thrills, had no attention to spare just then for a crop-eared pussy cat.
That evening a parcel was left at Patty's Place for Miss Shirley. It was a box containing a dozen magnificent roses. Phil pounced impertinently on the card that fell from it, read the name and the poetical quotation written on the back.

Steve Hanks Reflecting painting

Steve Hanks Reflecting painting
Douglas Hofmann tapestry painting
Lilly informed us that the aforesaid neighbor's hired boy was supposed to be down with scarlet fever. You can always trust Mrs. Lilly to tell you cheerful things like that. I have a horror of scarlet fever. I couldn't sleep when I went to bed for thinking of it. I tossed and tumbled about, dreaming fearful dreams when I did snooze for a minute; and at three I wakened up with a high fever, a sore throat, and a raging headache. I knew I had scarlet fever; I got up in a panic and hunted up Cousin Emily's 'doctor book' to read up the symptoms. Anne, I had them all. So I went back to bed, and knowing the worst, slept like a top the rest of the night. Though why a top should sleep sounder than anything else I never could understand. But this morning I was quite well, so it couldn't have been the fever. I suppose if I did catch it last night it couldn't have developed so soon. I can remember that in daytime, but at three o'clock at night I never can be logical.
"I suppose you wonder what I'm doing at Prospect Point. Well, I always like to spend a month of summer at the shore, and father insists that I come to his second-cousin Emily's `select boardinghouse' at Prospect Point. So a fortnight ago I came as usual. And as usual old `Uncle Mark Miller' brought me from the station with his ancient buggy and what he calls his

Lord Frederick Leighton Leighton Idyll painting

Lord Frederick Leighton Leighton Idyll painting
Steve Hanks Comfort in Solitude painting
Exaggeration is merely a flight of poetic fancy. I understand that wealthy folk have tried to buy the lot time and again -- it's really worth a small fortune now, you know -- but `Patty' won't sell upon any consideration. And there's an apple orchard behind the house in place of a back yard -- you'll see it when we get a little past -- a real apple orchard on Spofford Avenue!"
"I'm going to dream about `Patty's Place' tonight," said Anne. "Why, I feel as if I belonged to it. I wonder if, by any chance, we'll ever see the inside of it."
"It isn't likely," said Priscilla.
Anne smiled mysteriously.
"No, it isn't likely. But I believe it will happen. I have a queer, creepy, crawly feeling -- you can call it a presentiment, if you like -- that `Patty's Place' and I are going to be better acquainted yet."

Pierre-Auguste Cot The Storm painting

Pierre-Auguste Cot The Storm painting
Pierre Auguste Renoir The Large Bathers painting
and well-known man, and belonged to an old and exclusive "Bluenose" family. This, combined with her beauty and charm -- a charm acknowledged by all who met her -- promptly opened the gates of all cliques, clubs and classes in Redmond to her; and where she went Anne and Priscilla went, too. Phil "adored" Anne and Priscilla, especially Anne. She was a loyal little soul, crystal-free from any form of snobbishness. "Love me, love my friends" seemed to be her unconscious motto. Without effort, she took them with her into her ever widening circle of acquaintanceship, and the two Avonlea girls found their social pathway at Redmond made very easy and pleasant for them, to the envy and wonderment of the other freshettes, who, lacking Philippa's sponsorship, were doomed to remain rather on the fringe of things during their first college year.
To Anne and Priscilla, with their more serious views of life, Phil remained the amusing, lovable baby she had seemed on their first meeting. Yet, as she said herself, she had "heaps" of brains. When or where she found time to study was a mystery, for she seemed always in demand for some kind

Julien Dupre paintings

Julien Dupre paintings
Julius LeBlanc Stewart paintings
than I'd have of Chinese, allowances might be made. But Emily couldn't see it that way. Women ain't logical. She tried to break Ginger of swearing but she hadn't any better success than she had in trying to make me stop saying `I seen' and `them things.' Seemed as if the more she tried the worse Ginger got, same as me.
"Well, things went on like this, both of us getting raspier, till the climax came. Emily invited our minister and his wife to tea, and another minister and his wife that was visiting them. I'd promised to put Ginger away in some safe place where nobody would hear him. . .Emily wouldn't touch his cage with a ten-foot pole . . . and I meant to do it, for I didn't want the ministers to hear anything unpleasant in my house. But it slipped my mind. . .Emily was worrying me so much about clean collars and grammar that it wasn't any wonder. . .and I never thought of that poor parrot till we sat down to tea. Just as minister number one was in the very middle of saying grace, Ginger, who was on the veranda outside the dining room window, lifted up his voice

Eugene de Blaas paintings

Eugene de Blaas paintings
Eduard Manet paintings
Far and wide was a white carpet, knee deep, of hailstones; drifts of them were heaped up under the eaves and on the steps. When, three or four days later, those hailstones melted, the havoc they had wrought was plainly seen, for every green growing thing in the field or garden was cut off. Not only was every blossom stripped from the apple trees but great boughs and branches were wrenched away. And out of the two hundred trees set out by the Improvers by far the greater number were snapped off or torn to shreds.
"Can it possibly be the same world it was an hour ago?" asked Anne, dazedly. "It must have taken longer than that to play such havoc."
"The like of this has never been known in Prince Edward Island," said Marilla, "never. I remember when I was a girl there was a bad storm, but it was nothing to this. We'll hear of terrible destruction, you may be sure."

Thomas Kinkade paintings

Thomas Kinkade paintings
Thomas Stiltz paintings
sorry for poor Mr. Keith; but I am glad that we can keep the twins."
"It's a very good thing about the money," said Marilla practically. "I wanted to keep them but I really didn't see how I could afford to do it, especially when they grew older. The rent of the farm doesn't do any more than keep the house and I was bound that not a cent of your money should be spent on them. You do far too much for them as it is. Dora didn't need that new hat you bought her any more than a cat needs two tails. But now the way is made clear and they are provided for."
Davy and Dora were delighted when they heard that they were to live at Green Gables, "for good." The death of an uncle whom they had never seen could not weigh a moment in the balance against that. But Dora had one misgiving.
"Was Uncle Richard buried?" she whispered to Anne.
"Yes, dear, of course."
"He. . .he. . .isn't like Mirabel Cotton's uncle, is he?" in a still more agitated

famous painting

famous painting
theology and discouraged all fanciful speculations thereupon. Davy and Dora were taught a hymn, a catechism question, and two Bible verses every Sunday. Dora learned meekly and recited like a little machine, with perhaps as much understanding or interest as if she were one. Davy, on the contrary, had a lively curiosity, and frequently asked questions which made Marilla tremble for his fate.
"Chester Sloane says we'll do nothing all the time in heaven but walk around in white dresses and play on harps; and he says he hopes he won't have to go till he's an old man, 'cause maybe he'll like it better then. And he thinks it will be horrid to wear dresses and I think so too. Why can't men angels wear trousers, Anne? Chester Sloane is interested in those things, 'cause they're going to make a minister of him. He's got to be a minister 'cause his grandmother left the money to

John William Waterhouse Ophelia painting

John William Waterhouse Ophelia painting
childe hassam At the Piano painting
imagining things. You don't know what splendid adventures I have for a little while after I go to bed in the east gable every night. I always imagine I'm something very brilliant and triumphant and splendid. . . a great prima donna or a Red Cross nurse or a queen. Last night I was a queen. It's really splendid to imagine you are a queen. You have all the fun of it without any of the inconveniences and you can stop being a queen whenever you want to, which you couldn't in real life. But here in the woods I like best to imagine quite different things. . .I'm a dryad living in an old pine, or a little brown wood-elf hiding under a crinkled leaf. That white birch you caught me kissing is a sister of mine. The only difference is, she's a tree and I'm a girl, but that's no real difference. Where are you going, Diana?"
"Down to the Dicksons. I promised to help Alberta cut out her new dress. Can't you walk down in the evening, Anne, and come home with me?"
"I might. . .since Fred Wright is away in town," said Anne with a rather too innocent face.

John William Waterhouse Waterhouse Narcissus painting

John William Waterhouse Waterhouse Narcissus painting
John Singer Sargent Two Women Asleep in a Punt under the Willows painting
could get in from the barn. The poor bird has been moping ever since. Those children must be a sight of trouble to you folks."
"Everything that's worth having is some trouble," said Anne, secretly resolving to forgive Davy's next offence, whatever it might be, since he had avenged her on Ginger.
Mr. Roger Pye brought the hall paint home that night and Mr. Joshua Pye, a surly, taciturn man, began painting the next day. He was not disturbed in his task. The hall was situated on what was called "the lower road." In late autumn this road was always muddy and wet, and people going to Carmody traveled by the longer "upper" road. The hall was so closely surrounded by fir woods that it was invisible unless you were near it. Mr. Joshua Pye painted away in the solitude and independence that were so dear to his unsociable heart.
Friday afternoon he finished his job and went home to Carmody. Soon

Douglas Hofmann paintings

Douglas Hofmann paintings
Diane Romanello paintings
in and Mr. Barry takes over the farm. We'll have to keep Dolly shut up in the pen till Martin comes, for she must be put in the back pasture and the fences there have to be fixed. I declare, it is a world of trouble, as Rachel says. Here's poor Mary Keith dying and what is to become of those two children of hers is more than I know. She has a brother in British Columbia and she has written to him about them, but she hasn't heard from him yet."
"What are the children like? How old are they?"
"Six past. . .they're twins."
"Oh, I've always been especially interested in twins ever since Mrs. Hammond had so many," said Anne eagerly. "Are they pretty?"
"Goodness, you couldn't tell. . .they were too dirty. Davy had been out making mud pies and Dora went out to call him in. Davy pushed her headfirst into the biggest pie and then, because she cried, he got into it himself and wallowed in it to show her it was nothing to cry about. Mary said Dora was really a very good child