Vermeer girl with the pearl earring

Vermeer girl with the pearl earring
virgin of the rocks
Woman with a Parasol
It is frightful, messieurs. How can the women and the children draw water! Who can gossip of an evening, under that shadow! Under it, have I said? When I left the village, Monday evening as the sun was going to bed, and looked back from the hill, the shadow struck across the church, across the mill, across the prison- seemed to strike across the earth, messieurs, to where the sky rests upon it!" ¡¡¡¡The hungry man gnawed one of his fingers as he looked at the other three, and his finger quivered with the craving that was on him. ¡¡¡¡"That's all, messieurs. I left at sunset (as I had been warned to do), and I walked on, that night and half next day, until I met (as I was warned I should) this comrade. With him, I came on, now riding and now walking, through the rest of yesterday and through last night. And here you see me!" ¡¡¡¡After a gloomy silence, the first Jacques said, "Good! You have acted and recounted faithfully. Will you wait for us a little, outside the door?" ¡¡¡¡"Very willingly," said the mender of roads. Whom Defarge escorted to the top of the stairs, and, leaving seated there, returned. ¡¡¡¡The three had risen, and their heads were together when he came back to the garret. ¡¡¡¡"How say you, Jacques?" demanded Number One. "To be registered?" ¡¡¡¡"To be registered, as doomed to destruction," returned Defarge. ¡¡¡¡"Magnificent!" croaked the man with the craving. ¡¡¡¡"The chateau, and all the race?" inquired the first. ¡¡¡¡"The chateau and all the race," returned Defarge. "Extermination." ¡¡¡¡The hungry man repeated, in a rapturous croak, "Magnificent!" and began gnawing another finger.