Vermeer Girl with a Red Hat

Red Hat Girl
Red Nude painting
Regatta At Argenteuil
Vermeer Girl with a Red Hat
tigers.The great slinking brutes had crawled to their places and performed theirdegrading and humiliating tricks.Their eyes and subdued snarls told ofhatred,bitter fanatical hatred,but they had obeyed,cringed.That had been a youngwoman,a woman with an arrogant dark beauty,but the look had been the same. "Une dompteuse,"said Dr Gerard to himself. And he understood now what that undercurrent to the harmless family talk hadbeen.It was hatred -a dark eddying stream of hatred. He thought: "How fanciful and absurd most people would think me!Here is acommonplace devoted American family reveling in Palestine -and I weave
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a storyof black magic round it!" Then he looked with interest at the quiet young woman who was calledNadine.There was a wedding ring on her left hand,and as he watched her he sawher give one swift betraying glance at the fair-haired,loose-limbed Lennox.Heknew,then...... They were man and wife,those two.But it was a mother's glance rather than awife's -a true mother's glance -protecting,anxious.And he knew something more.Heknew that,alone out of that group,Nadine Boynton was unaffected by her mother-in-law's spell.She may have disliked the old woman.,but she was not afraid ofher.The power did not touch her. She was unhappy,deeply concerned about her husband,but she was free. Dr Gerard said to himself: "All this is very interesting."