Sunday, December 16, 2007

Hylas and the Nymphs

Hylas and the Nymphs
jesus christ on the cross
klimt painting the kiss
leonardo da vinci self portrait
Madonna Litta
¡¡¡¡Her tone was so very earnest that I raised my eyes in surprise. ¡¡¡¡'I look back on my life, child,' said my aunt, 'and I think of some who are in their graves, with whom I might have been on kinder terms. If I judged harshly of other people's mistakes in marriage, it may have been because I had bitter reason to judge harshly of my own. Let that pass. I have been a grumpy, frumpy, wayward sort of a woman, a good many years. I am still, and I always shall be. But you and I have done one another some good, Trot, - at all events, you have done me good, my dear; and division must not come between us, at this time of day.' ¡¡¡¡'Division between us!' cried I. ¡¡¡¡'Child, child!' said my aunt, smoothing her dress, 'how soon it might come between us, or how unhappy
oil paintingI might make our Little Blossom, if I meddled in anything, a prophet couldn't say. I want our pet to like me, and be as gay as a butterfly. Remember your own home, in that second marriage; and never do both me and her the injury you have hinted at!' ¡¡¡¡I comprehended, at once, that my aunt was right; and I comprehended the full extent of her generous feeling towards my dear wife. ¡¡¡¡'These are early days, Trot,' she pursued, 'and Rome was not built in a day, nor in a year. You have chosen freely for yourself'; a cloud passed over her face for a moment, I thought; 'and you have

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Hylas and the Nymphs