The Sacrifice of Abraham painting
The Abduction of Psyche
The British Are Coming
The Broken Pitcher
¡¡¡¡`Well - this is the same man.' ¡¡¡¡`The same man as the preacher? But he's quite different!' ¡¡¡¡`He hev left off his black coat and white neckercher, and hev cut off his whiskers; but he's the same man for all that.' ¡¡¡¡`D'ye really think so? Then I'll tell her,' said Marian. ¡¡¡¡`Don't. She'll see him soon enough, good-now.' ¡¡¡¡`Well, I don't think it at all right for him to join his preaching to courting a married woman, even though her husband mid be abroad, and she, in a sense, a widow.' ¡¡¡¡`Oh - he can do her no harm,' said Izz drily. `Her mind can no more be heaved from that one place where it do bide than a stooded waggon from the hole he's in. Lord love 'ee, neither court-paying, nor preaching, nor the seven thunders themselves, can wean a woman when 'twould be better for her that she should be weaned.' ¡¡¡¡Dinner-time came, and the whirling ceased; whereupon Tess left her post, her knees trembling so wretchedly with the shaking of the machine that she could scarcely walk. ¡¡¡¡`You ought to het a quart o' drink into 'ee, as I've done,' said Marian. `You wouldn't look so white then. Why, souls above us, your face is as if you'd been hagrode!' ¡¡¡¡It occurred to the good-natured Marian that, as Tess was so tired, her discovery of her visitor's presence might have the bad effect of taking away her appetite; and Marian was thinking of inducing Tess to descend by a ladder on the further side of the stack when the gentleman came forward and looked up. ¡¡¡¡Tess uttered a short little `Oh!' And a moment after she said, quickly, `I shall eat my dinner here - right on the rick.' ¡¡¡¡Sometimes, when they were so far from their cottages, they all did this; but as there was rather a keen wind going to-day, Marian and the rest descended, and sat under the straw-stack.
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The Sacrifice of Abraham painting
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