Tuesday, November 27, 2007

The Sacrifice of Abraham painting

The Sacrifice of Abraham painting
The Three Ages of Woman
The Virgin and Child with St Anne
The Water lily Pond
¡¡¡¡`Anyhow, then, your love for this other man may be only a passing feeling which you will overcome------' ¡¡¡¡`No - no.' ¡¡¡¡`Yes, yes! Why not?' ¡¡¡¡`I cannot tell you.' ¡¡¡¡`You must in honour!' ¡¡¡¡`Well then - I have married him.' ¡¡¡¡`Ah!' he exclaimed; and he stopped dead and gazed at her. ¡¡¡¡`I did not wish to tell - I did not mean to!' she pleaded. `It is a secret here, or at any rate but dimly known. So will you, please will you, keep from questioning me? You must remember that we are now strangers.' ¡¡¡¡`Strangers - are we? Strangers!' ¡¡¡¡For a moment a flash of his old irony marked his face; but he determinedly chastened it down. ¡¡¡¡`Is that man your husband?' he asked mechanically, denoting by a sign the labourer who turned the machine. ¡¡¡¡`That man!' she said proudly. `I should think not!' ¡¡¡¡`Who, then?' ¡¡¡¡`Do not ask what I do not wish to tell!' she begged, and flashed her appeal to him from her upturned face and lash-shadowed eyes. ¡¡¡¡D'Urberville was disturbed. ¡¡¡¡`But I only asked for your sake!' he retorted hotly. `Angels of heaven! - God forgive me for such an expression - I came here, I swear, as I thought for your good. Tess - don't look at me so - I cannot stand your looks! There never were such eyes, surely, before Christianity or since! There - I won't lose my head; I dare not. I own that the sight of you has waked up my love for You, which, I believed, was extinguished with all such feelings. But I thought that our marriage might be a sanctification for us both. The unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband," I said to myself. But my plan is dashed from me; and I must bear the disappointment!' ¡¡¡¡He moodily reflected with his eyes on the ground. `Married. Married! - Well, that being so,' he added, quite

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The Sacrifice of Abraham painting

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