William Bouguereau Birth of Venus Painting

William Bouguereau Birth of Venus Painting
Cabanel The Birth of Venus painting
"Something else happened?" she said in a startled voice. Getting up from her chair she came towards her husband: "What happened? Who came?"
"Just a message for me, asking if I could go to-night to wait at a young lady's birthday party. In Hanover Terrace it is. A waiter - one of them nasty Swiss fellows as works for nothing - fell out just at the last minute and so they had to send for me."
The Birth of Venus
His honest face shone with triumph. The man who had taken over his old friend's business in Baker Street had hitherto behaved very badly to Bunting, and that though Bunting had been on the books for ever so long, and had always given every satisfaction. But this new man had never employed him - no, not once.
"I hope you didn't make yourself too cheap?" said his wife jealously.
The Birth of Venus