Gustav Klimt Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer painting

Gustav Klimt Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer paintingSteve Hanks Where the Grass is Greener painting
away from him! He'll have yer fingers — oh. It's yeh lot."
Fang was jumping up at Hermione and Ron, attempting to lick their ears. Hagrid stood and looked at them all for a split second, then turned and strode into his cabin, slamming the door behind him.
"Oh dear!" said Hermione, looking stricken.
"Don't worry about it," said Harry grimly. He walked over to the door and knocked loudly. "Hagrid! Open up, we want to talk to you!"
There was no sound from within.
"If you don't open the door, we'll blast it open!" Harry said, pulling out his wand.
"Harry!" said Hermione, sounding shocked. "You can't possibly —"
"Yeah, I can!" said Harry. "Stand back —"

Andrew Atroshenko The Passion of Music painting

Andrew Atroshenko The Passion of Music paintingPablo Picasso Weeping Woman with Handkerchief painting
When they left the Gryffindor table five minutes later to head down to the Quidditch pitch, they passed Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil. Remembering what Hermione had said about the Patil twins' parents wanting them to leave Hogwarts, Harry was unsurprised to see that the two best friends were whispering together, looking distressed. What did surprise him was that when Ron drew level with them, Parvati suddenly nudged Lavender, who looked around and gave Ron a wide smile. Ron blinked at her, then returned the smile uncertainly. His walk instantly became something more like a strut. Harry resisted the temptation to laugh, remembering that Ron had refrained from doing so after Malfoy had broken Harry's nose; Hermione, however, looked cold and distant all the way down to the stadium through the cool, misty drizzle, and departed to find a place in the stands without wishing Ron good luck.
As Harry had expected, the trials took most of the morning. Half of Gryffindor House seemed to have turned up, from first years who were nervously clutching a selection of the dreadful old school brooms, to seventh years who towered over the rest, looking coolly intimidating. The latter included a large, wiry-haired boy Harry recognized immediately from the Hogwarts Express.

Pierre Auguste Renoir After The Bath painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir After The Bath paintingPierre Auguste Renoir After The Bath 1888 painting
snake swung sadly again.
"It's your son I'm here to see, Mr. Gaunt," said Ogden, as he mopped the last of the pus from the front of his coat. "That was Morfin, wasn't it?"
"Ah, that was Morfin," said the old man indifferently. "Are you pure-blood?" he asked, suddenly aggressive.
"That's neither here nor there," said Ogden coldly, and Harry felt his respect for Ogden rise. Apparently Gaunt felt rather differently.
He squinted into Ogden’s face and muttered, in what was clearly supposed to be an offensive tone, "Now I come to think about it, I've seen noses like yours down in the village."
"I don't doubt it, if your son’s been let loose on them," said Ogden. "Perhaps we could continue this discussion inside?"
"Inside?"

Claude Monet Poplars painting

Claude Monet Poplars paintingClaude Monet La Grenouillere paintingClaude Monet Cliffs Near Dieppe painting
saying "Episkey." "And Ginny, don't call Ron a prat, you're not the Captain of this team —"
"How did you…?"
"Well, you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should —"
"Harry, please. You're talking to the man who raised Fred and George."
Harry forced himself not to laugh.
"Er... yeah, all right, we weren't in the back room." "Very well, then, let's hear the worst."
Harry took a deep breath.
"There's something else. We saw Malfoy jump about a mile when Madam Malkin tried to touch his left arm. I think he's been branded with the Dark Mark. 1 think he's replaced his father as a Death Eater."
Mr. Weasley looked taken aback. After a moment he said, "Harry, I doubt whether You-Know-Who would allow a sixteen-year-old…"

Michelangelo Buonarroti Creation of Adam detail painting

Michelangelo Buonarroti Creation of Adam detail paintingPierre Auguste Renoir The First Outing paintingPierre Auguste Renoir Les baigneuses painting
Well, really? said Madam Malkin, snatching up the fallen robes and moving the tip of her wand over them like a vacuum cleaner, so that it removed all the dust.
She was distracted all through the fitting of Ron's and Harry's new robes, tried to sell Hermione wizard's dress robes instead of witch's, and when she finally bowed them out of the shop it was with an air of being glad to see the back of them.
"Got ev'rything?" asked Hagrid brightly when they reappeared at his side.
"Just about," said Harry. "Did you see the Malfoys?"
"Yeah," said Hagrid, unconcerned. "Bu they wouldn... dare make trouble in the middle o' Diagon Alley, Harry. Don' worry abou1 them."
Harry, Ron, and Hermione exchanged looks, but before they could disabuse Hagrid of this comfortable notion, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley and Ginny appeared, all clutching heavy packages of books.

Winslow Homer Children on the Beach painting

Winslow Homer Children on the Beach painting
Andrew Atroshenko What a Wonderful Life painting
Dudley raised a large, hamlike hand to point at Harry.

"Why isn't he coming with us?

　　　Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia froze when they stood staring at Dudley as though he had just expressed a desire to become a ballerina.

"What?" said Uncle Vernon loudly.

"Why isn't he coming too?" asked Dudley.

　　　"Well, he—doesn't want to," said Uncle Vernon, turning to glare at Harry and adding, "You don't want to, do you?"

"Not in the slightest," said Harry.

"There you are," Uncle Vernon told Dudley. "Now come on we're off."

　　　He marched out of the room. They heard the front door open, but Dudley did not move and after a few faltering steps Aunt Petunia

Leonardo da Vinci Leda and the Swan painting

Leonardo da Vinci Leda and the Swan painting
Leonardo da Vinci Head of Christ painting
There was silence. Harry thought he had rather impressed his uncle with this argument.

　　　"You claim," said Uncle Vernon, starting to pace yet again, "that this Lord Thing –"

　　　"—Voldemort," said Harry impatiently, "and we've been through this about a hundred times already. This isn't a claim, it's fact. Dumbledore told you last year, and Kingsley and Mr. Weasley –"

　　　Vernon Dursley hunched his shoulders angrily, and Harry guessed that his uncle was attempting to ward off recollections of the unannounced visit, a few days into Harry's summer holidays, of two fully grown wizards. The arrival on the doorstep of Kingsley Shacklebolt and Arthur Weasley had come as a

Gustav Klimt Expectation (gold foil) painting

Gustav Klimt Expectation (gold foil) painting
Gustav Klimt Death and Life painting
Though Ariana had been in poor for a long time, the blow, coming so soon after the loss of their mother, had a profound effect on both of her brothers. All those closest to Albus – and I count myself one of that lucky number – agree that Ariana's death, and Albus's feeling of personal responsibility for it (though, of course, he was guiltless), left their mark upon him forevermore.

I returned to find a young man who had experienced a much older person's suffering. Albus was more reserved than before, and much less light-hearted. To add to his misery, the loss of Ariana had led, not to a renewed closeness between Albus and Aberforth, but to an estrangement. (In time this

Johannes Vermeer girl with the pearl earring painting

Johannes Vermeer girl with the pearl earring painting
Gustav Klimt The Three Ages of Woman painting
SHALL WE CHOOSE DEATH? (2)Bertrand RussellDecember 30, 1954Here, then, is the problem, which I present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race1 or shall mankind renounce war? People will not face this alternative because it is so difficult to abolish war. The abolition of war will demand distasteful limitations of national sovereignty. But what perhaps impedes understanding of the situation more than anything else is that the term 'mankind' feels vague and abstract. People scarcely realize in imagination that the danger is to themselves and their children and their grandchildren, and not only to a dimly apprehended humanity' And so they hope that perhaps war may be allowed to continue provided modern weapons are prohibited. I am afraid this hope is illusory.

Rembrandt Samson And Delilah painting

Rembrandt Samson And Delilah painting
Guido Reni The Archangel Michael painting
s endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws of Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE(2)In Congress, July 4, 1776, He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

Fabian Perez Valencia painting

Fabian Perez Valencia painting
Fabian Perez Sophia painting
Today, a generation raised in the shadows of the cold war assumes new responsibilities in a world, warmed by the sunshine of freedom but threatened still by ancient hatreds and new plagues.Raised in unrivaled prosperity, we inherit an economy that is still the world’s strongest but is weakened by business failures, stagnant wages, increasing inequality and deep divisions among our own people.When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, news traveled slowly across the land by horseback and across the ocean by boat. Now the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to billions around the world. Communications and commerce are global, investment is mobile, technology is almost magical, and ambition for a better life is now universal. We earn our livelihood in America today in peaceful competition with people all across the earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

Fabian Perez Sophia painting

Fabian Perez Sophia painting
Fabian Perez Man in Black Suit painting
The 39-year-old said he had accepted an offer to manage the club who were recently promoted to the Argentine First Division for the first time in more than half a century. "I'm happy. We always want glory more than anything else, so after having obtained glory in my playing career, I also want glory as a manager, to teach young players," Maradona told Reuters Television in an interview. He was speaking in his bungalow at the health spa hotel in Cuba where has spent most of this year receiving treatment for cocaine addiction. Maradona and his representative, Guillermo Coppola, was finalizing details of the deal with Almagro after talks in Havana with the club's president Dardo de

Fabian Perez Flamenco painting

Fabian Perez Flamenco painting
Fabian Perez Flamenco Dancer painting
working together in the Midwest. But when Morgan left for a job on the East Coast, they called it quits. Two months, later, Morgan got an e-mail from her ex-beau. "We started talking only on e-mail," Morgan writes in an e-mail. "I found it was very easy to communicate that way. Very slowly the e-mails went from friendly nice to a little flirty and than I MISS You. I don't know if we would have started up again without e-mail." Maguire says e-mail can provide a comfortable forum for people to express their more intimate feelings, helping a relationship get into the fast lane where it might otherwise have stalled with a single awkward conversation. "For some people who are in an early relationship or those who started online, they feel safer expressing love and what they call the 'mushy stuff' on this medium because it's safer," she says. "I've had a lot of people say they feel much safer on e-mail, especially those who are shy."

Francois Boucher Madame de Pompadour painting

Francois Boucher Madame de Pompadour painting
Francois Boucher Adoration of the Shepherds painting
The company has been in a state of flux lately. In the past 18 months, StaffMark began shedding its staffing units to focus solely on high-technology consulting at Edgewater.StaffMark changed its name to Edgewater last summer, just as it completed the sales of its largest staffing units.While the company raised about $450 million through the sales of its staffing units, shareholders were displeased with the divestiture and some of its employees were unhappy with the move from Arkansas to Massachusetts.StaffMark generated revenue in excess of $1 billion in 1999 before it began a series of divestitures. During the first nine months of 2000, Edgewater reported $23.4 million in revenue.The company stock finished the day at 6-3/8, down slightly on the day but well off its 52-week high of 12-1/16.

Titian The Fall of Man painting

Titian The Fall of Man painting
John William Godward Nu Sur La Plage painting
high-tech industry—the past two years. It uses government data from 1998.Some industry experts say this year's dot-com fallout and other factors in the fast-moving tech industry make the study outdated."Between two years ago and now, San Francisco could very well have been the fastest growing area," said Marie Jones, director of business assistance at the San Francisco Partnership, a nonprofit economic development group.The study shows that in tech employment within the Bay area, San Francisco, at 20th, was upstaged by Oakland, ranked 17th.San Jose residents were the most wired in the nation, with a computer in 77 percent of households and Internet access in 66 percent.Jones said the study's findings on other cities' booming high-tech industries aren't surprising.

Douglas Hofmann Model painting

Douglas Hofmann Model painting
Claude Monet La Japonaise painting
reported that the companies have been talking for months and a deal "could still collapse." Taylor said rumors about a sale appeared in the Japanese press about a month ago. "I don't think that Nintendo is trying to buy Sega," he said. "There have been rumors floating around about some kind of an arrangement between Nintendo and Sega for some time." The story comes as the video-game industry faces a year of heightened activity and change. In October, market-leading Sony introduced PlayStation 2 in North America. Units were snapped up virtually before they were on store shelves. Citing a shortage of parts, the company brought out only half the inventory it had planned to. Meanwhile, Japan-based Nintendo, which has its North American headquarters in Redmond, is expected to introduce its next-generation console, the Gamecube, in the fall. And a new player - Microsoft - is set to launch a console, called the Xbox, in the fall, too.

William Bouguereau The Nymphaeum painting

William Bouguereau The Nymphaeum painting
Yvonne Jeanette Karlsen sisters painting
While Mrs. Clinton has been at pains to appear as just one more freshman senator, her position at Wednesday's events undercut this intention. Because of security concerns for her and the president, she got to have her photo taken first, instead of 10th, which is her rank in alphabet
Marion Jones holds her five Olympic medals for track and field events in Sydney, Australia, Oct. 1, 2000. Jones was chosen Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2000, as The Associated Press' Female Athlete of the Year.
NEW YORK - Marion Jones failed to reach her goal of five gold medals at the Sydney Games. All she did was win more medals than any female track athlete ever had at a single Olympicsical order of newly sworn senators.

Julius LeBlanc Stewart paintings

Julius LeBlanc Stewart paintings
Jeffrey T.Larson paintings
EU ministers were due to meet from 1400 GMT to monitor progress in combating the spread of BSE, but the talks were likely to be overshadowed by the confirmed outbreaks in Britain of the highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease.Britain's Agriculture Secretary, Nick Brown, has warned that the disease might have crossed the Channel after a new case was found on Sunday among cattle at a farm in southwest England that exported sheep to continental Europe.Brown was due to make a statement to the British parliament before heading for the meeting with his EU colleagues.Farmers earlier used hundreds of tractors in slow-moving convoys to block roads into the Belgian capital and in northern France, causing chaos for early morning commuters.

City painting

City painting
Cottage painting

The source of the devastating foot-and-mouth outbreak in Britain has been narrowed to northern England and may be linked to a Chinese restaurant in the same region.
British Agriculture Minister Nick Brown said today the disease had been traced to swill fed to pigs on a farm at Heddon-on-the-Wall in northern England. But he would not specifically say whether the infected meat — which British media had earlier reported made its way from a Chinese restaurant into the swill — was the source of the disease. He did, however, say the government was continuing to investigate if the virus had been brought into the country via illegally imported meat.

Louis Aston Knight paintings

Louis Aston Knight paintings
Leon Bazile Perrault paintings
On a lighter note, indeed that of an invisible nature, the front page of The Guardian introduces the results of a 10-day study on ghosts conducted in the vaults and tunnels in Edinburgh castle and the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland. More than 250 brave souls wandered through areas suspected of harboring paranormal activity and say they have confirmed its existence. And just one night after her American debut on NBC's The Weakest Link, the London broadsheets and tabloids report on the dismal reviews Anne Robinson received in the American press. The Daily Mail does little to cushion the blow, telling its homegrown girl, "It's you who's the weakest link, U.S. critics tell Anne." Should this popular British hit have been sent across the Atlantic? Only time will tell.

Guillaume Seignac The Wave painting

Guillaume Seignac The Wave painting
Steve Hanks Interior View I painting
From the account provided to The Times, Dipendra apparently displayed no emotion as he shot down many members of the royal family. "He said nothing at all throughout the whole episode, and there was no expression whatever on his face," the witness told The Times. "He just fired indiscriminately." According to the account, Queen Aishwarya, and Dipendra's younger brother, Prince Nirajan, followed him into the garden during the shooting spree where they were shot dead. The witness report also painted a heroic picture of the current king's son Paras Shah, a royal bad boy, who has come under suspicion in the past few days. But Shah apparently got some of the younger royal members to hide behind a

Louis Aston Knight A Sunny Morning at Beaumont-Le Roger painting

Louis Aston Knight A Sunny Morning at Beaumont-Le Roger painting
Peter Paul Rubens Samson and Delilah painting
But after a seriously wounded Dipendra was named king upon his father's death, King Gyanendra said the killings were accidental, leading to widespread disbelief among Nepalese that their well-loved prince was a murderer. Culture ClashHowever, accounts now emerging from witnesses to the tragedy and from Dipendra's friends and associates paint a familiar picture of an heir to a tradition-bound monarchy battling the pressures of dynastic expectations with the freedoms of modern life. Like many members of elite and powerful families in developing nations, Dipendra was educated in a prestigious British boarding school, had access to all the luxuries of a wealthy modern lifestyle, but had to conform to the norms

William Bouguereau Birth of Venus painting

William Bouguereau Birth of Venus painting
Douglas Hofmann dying swan painting
the time the Olympic Games opens in 2008, Beijing will have met the required environmental quality standards. A new Beijing of fresh air, beautiful environment and sound ecosystem will emerge in the eyes of the people of the world.Action Plan for the Green Olympics ObjectivesBeijing's "Action Plan" will turn the capital into a "green city." These plans include reducing automobile emissions, protecting water resources and improving the city's infrastructure. By September 2008 the city's environment will meet the demands to host the Olympic Games in every aspect.Green Olympics ProgramReducing Coal PollutionBeijing will import more natural gas from other province and extend its gas pipeline network in the city to reduce pollution caused by burning coal.

Joan Miro paintings

Joan Miro paintings
Jean-Honore Fragonard paintings
I think it's something that could be a factor, especially for the younger Serena.'' Indeed, Venus had won four of their first five pro matches. They don't hide that they aren't fond of playing each other, and there has been much debate among other players and fans about whether Richard Williams predetermines the outcomes of all-in-the-family faceoffs. The scrutiny intensified in March when Venus, citing knee tendinitis, pulled out of an event in California shortly before her semifinal match against Serena. There had been no hint of the injury previously in the tournament, and the crowd reacted to the ill-timed withdrawal by booing the family. ``I'm just appalled that anyone would hint something like that,'' Venus said. ``I don't think that has ever been the case and that it ever will be.''

Allan R.Banks paintings

Allan R.Banks paintings
Andrea Mantegna paintings

The use of patriotic themes in advertising has been a huge trend since the Sept. 11 attacks. But some critics say some ads may be going to far. Is using patriotism to sell products in bad taste or a way to help the economy?
With everyone from President Bush to New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani urging the country to get back to normal, companies like New York Sports Clubs and Ford have been using patriotic messages to try to get the wheels of capitalism rolling again.But for media watchers, the amber waves of patriotism that have swept over advertising have stirred up some controversy. While some argue that companies are just doing their part to help the economy out of its funk, others say using patriotism to sell products so soon after a national tragedy is in poor taste."It's an emotional time for everyone and advertisers — like everyone else —

canvas painting

canvas painting
For example, William McGrew, a professor of anthropology and zoology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, has studied handedness among chimps in the wild and determined that about half the animals are left-handed and half are right-handed."Each individual chimp seems to commit itself to one side or another," he said. "But chimps don't seem to show any overall leanings."William Hopkins, a psychologist at Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia, disagrees. His studies with chimps in captivity show the animals overwhelmingly favor using their right hands.A common experiment he uses to test for handedness is giving a chimp a long tube with peanut butter lodged inside. If the chimp holds the tube with its left hand and probes for the peanut butter with its right hand, the animal is likely right-handed. Hopkins has found that the chimps almost always attack the peanut butter this way.

City painting

City painting
Cottage painting
Moreover, most of the industry is moving in the direction of computer animation. "It is where things are going," studio chief Dick Cook said.Computer animation, often called 3-D, is more than drawing with a computer pen. Designers build a character and then they can add as many layers of complexity as they want.The cartoon star, Mickey Mouse, has already made the jump to computer graphics and has a computer-animated holiday video in the works.Next year Disney's animation department will release the computer-animated feature, "Chicken Little," which tells the story of a chick who thought the sky was falling.

Venice paintings

Venice paintings
Village painting
Such "partner" robots bring the ideal results: huge savings in medical costs, reduced burdens on family and caretakers, and old and sick people kept in better health.Research found that some patients' activity, such as talking, watching and touching, increased with the introduction of the robot in therapy sessions. "This technology is really needed for the global community," said Russell Bodoff, executive director at the Center for Aging Services Technologies in Washington, D.C. "If we look 30 years out, we will have to face many more aging people than we could ever deal with." The robot will be given more features, such as the ability to monitor a patient's blood pressure or body temperature. But how robots will change people remains to be seen. Will robots make people lazy? Will they make us colder or more humane?

Frank Dicksee Romeo and Juliet painting

Frank Dicksee Romeo and Juliet painting
Guillaume Seignac Cupid Disarmed painting

2800 prostitutes wearing face masks and sunglasses marched on parliament to protest against a police crackdown on South Korea's sex trade.
About 2 800 prostitutes wearing face masks and sunglasses to shield their identities marched on parliament to protest against a police crackdown on South Korea's sex trade.Police turned a blind eye to the illegal but flourishing sex trade until last month when a massive crackdown closed brothels nationwide and put tens of thousands of prostitutes out of business.Many protestors carried banners demanding the "right to work" and calling for legislation legalising prostitution."We are willing to pay tax if the government legalises our jobs," the prostitutes said in a statement.The sex industry accounts for more than four percent of South Korea's gross domestic product, with its annual sales estimated at 24-trillion won last year.

William Etty William Etty painting

William Etty William Etty painting
Steve Hanks Silver Strand painting
Airbus showed off its giant A380, a double-decked behemoth that could revolutionize long-haul flying. The A380 superjumbo is the world's largest passenger plane. The superjumbo A380, capable of flying up to 800 passengers, has a 262-foot wingspan, a tail as tall as a seven-story building and which cost $13 billion to develop.French President Jacques Chirac and other European leaders struck a triumphal note at the ceremony, hailing the A380 as a sign of Europe's capacity to generate world-beating industries. "It's a symbol of economic strength, technological innovation, the dedication of the work force that built it and above all of a confidence that we can compete and win in the global market," British Prime Minister Tony Blair said. The Airbus A380 was developed in response to the growing problems of airport congestion and air traffic control systems struggling to cope with the number of aircraft in operation.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti paintings

Dante Gabriel Rossetti paintings
Daniel Ridgway Knight paintings
When I face such training problems—and I do, we all do—I try to adopt a Sherlock Holmesian strategy, using logic and determination. We have all sorts of tools at our disposal that dogs don't have. We control every aspect of their lives, from food to shelter to play, so we ought to be able to figure out what's driving the dog and come up with an individually tailored approach that works—and if it doesn't, come up with another one.Why will Clementine come instantly if she's looking at me, but not if she's sniffing deer droppings? Is it because she's being stubborn or, as many people tell me, going through "adolescence"? Or because, when following her keen predatory instincts, she simply doesn't hear me? Should my response be to tug at her leash or yell? Maybe I should be sure we've established eye contact before I give her a command, or

Jean-Paul Laurens paintings

Jean-Paul Laurens paintings
Jules Breton paintings
SCARLETT: Oh, don't tease me now. Have I your heart my darling? I love you, I love you...ASHLEY: You mustn't say such things. You'll hate me for hearing them.SCARLETT: Oh, I could never hate you and, and I know you must care about me. Oh, you do care, don't you? ASHLEY: Yes, I care. Oh can't we go away and forget we ever said these things?SCARLETT: But how can we do that? Don't you, don't you want to marry me? ASHLEY: I'm going to marry Melanie. SCARLETT: But you can't, not if you care for me.ASHLEY: Oh my dear, why must you make me say things that will hurt you? How can I make you understand? You're so young and I'm thinking, you don't know what marriage means.SCARLETT: I know I love you and I want to be your wife. You don't love Melanie.ASHLEY: She's like me, Scarlett. She's part of my blood, we understand each other.SCARLETT: But you love me!ASHLEY: How could I help loving you? You have all the passion for life that I lack. But that kind of love isn't enough to make a successful marriage for two people who are as different as we are.

Rembrandt The Return of the Prodigal Son painting

Rembrandt The Return of the Prodigal Son painting
John Collier Lady Godiva painting
was perfectly yellow, and stretched tightly over the bones. Its clothing, with the exception of what seemed to be the remains of a pair of woollen hose, had been removed, leaving the skeleton-like frame naked. Round the neck hung a yellow ivory crucifix. The corpse was frozen perfectly stiff.
"Who on earth can it be?" said I.
"Can't you guess?" asked Good.
I shook my head.
"Why, the old don, José da Silvestra, of course - who else?"
"Impossible," I gasped, "he died three hundred years ago."
"And what is there to prevent his lastenough flesh and blood will keep as fresh as New Zealand mutton forever, and Heaven knows it is cold enough here. The sun never gets in here; no animal comes here to tear or destroy. No doubt his slave, of whom he speaks on the map, took off his clothes and left him. He could not have buried him alone. Look here," he went. on, stooping down and picking up a queer-shaped bone scraped at the end into a sharp point, "here is the `cleft-bone' that he used to draw the map ing for three thousand years in this atmosphere

John Singleton Copley paintings

John Singleton Copley paintings
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida paintings
not have you worried, and that blessed child upset in consequence, for any number of legs."
"Oh, you must go to your sister at once, Susan. I can get a girl from the cove, who will do for a time."
"Anne, will you let me come and stay with you while Susan is away?" exclaimed Leslie. "Do! I'd love to--and it would be an act of charity on your part. I'm so horribly lonely over there in that big barn of a house. There's so little to do--and at night I'm worse than lonely--I'm frightened and nervous in spite of locked doors. There was a tramp around two days ago."
Anne joyfully agreed, and next day Leslie was installed as an inmate of the little house of dreams. Miss Cornelia warmly approved of the arrangement.
"It seems Providential," she told Anne in confidence. "I'm sorry for Matilda Clow, but since she had to break her leg it couldn't have happened at a better time.

Guillaume Seignac The Wave painting

Guillaume Seignac The Wave painting
Steve Hanks Interior View I painting
grandparents lived in. He had a bad spell of typhoid in the spring and hasn't got rightly over it, so his doctor has ordered him to the sea. He doesn't want to go to the hotel--he just wants a quiet home place. I can't take him, for I have to be away in August. I've been appointed a delegate to the W.F.M.S. convention in Kingsport and I'm going. I don't know whether Leslie'll want to be bothered with him, either, but there's no one else. If she can't take him he'll have to go over the harbor."
"When you've seen her come back and help us eat our cherry pies," said Anne. "Bring Leslie and Dick, too, if they can come. And so you're going to Kingsport? What a nice time you will have. I must give you a letter to a friend of mine there--Mrs. Jonas Blake."
"I've prevailed on Mrs. Thomas Holt to go with me," said Miss Cornelia complacently. "It's time she had a little holiday, believe me. She has just about worked herself to death. Tom Holt can crochet beautifully, but he can't make a living for his family. He never seems to be able to get up early enough to do any work,

Lord Frederick Leighton The Painter's Honeymoon painting

Lord Frederick Leighton The Painter's Honeymoon painting
Pierre Auguste Renoir La Moulin de la Galette painting
far yet."
"You'd find something good to say of the devil himself, Jim Boyd."
"Well, you've heard the story of the old lady who said he was persevering. But no, Cornelia, I've nothing good to say of the devil."
"Do you believe in him at all?" asked Miss Cornelia seriously.
"How can you ask that when you know what a good Presbyterian I am, Cornelia? How could a Presbyterian get along without a devil?"
"Do you?" persisted Miss Cornelia.
Captain Jim suddenly became grave.
"I believe in what I heard a minister once call `a mighty and malignant and intelligent power of evil working in the universe,'" he said solemnly. "I do that, Cornelia. You can call it the devil, or the `principle of evil,' or the Old Scratch, or any name you like. It's there, and

Warren Kimble paintings

Warren Kimble paintings
Wassily Kandinsky paintings
Anne's physical strength suddenly failed her. If she had not clutched at a low willow bough she would have fallen. Pacifique was George Fletcher's hired man, and George Fletcher lived next door to the Blythes. Mrs. Fletcher was Gilbert's aunt. Pacifique would know if -- if -- Pacifique would know what there was to be known.
Pacifique strode sturdily on along the red lane, whistling. He did not see Anne. She made three futile attempts to call him. He was almost past before she succeeded in making her quivering lips call, "Pacifique!"
Pacifique turned with a grin and a cheerful good morning.
"Pacifique," said Anne faintly, "did you come from George Fletcher's this morning?"
"Sure," said Pacifique amiably. "I got de word las' night dat my fader, he was seeck. It was so stormy dat I couldn't go den, so I start vair early dis mornin'. I'm goin'

Famous painting

Famous painting
grotto-like effect of emerald gloom. There are wonderful tidies on the chairs, and gay mats on the floor, and books and cards carefully arranged on a round table, and vases of dried grass on the mantel-piece. Between the vases is a cheerful decoration of preserved coffin plates -- five in all, pertaining respectively to Janet's father and mother, a brother, her sister Anne, and a hired man who died here once! If I go suddenly insane some of these days `know all men by these presents' that those coffin-plates have caused it.
"But it's all delightful and I said so. Janet loved me for it, just as she detested poor Esther because Esther had said so much shade was unhygienic and had objected to sleeping on a feather bed. Now, I glory in feather-beds, and the more unhygienic and feathery they are the more I glory. Janet says it is such a comfort to see me eat; she had been so afraid I would be like Miss Haythorne, who wouldn't eat anything but fruit and hot water for breakfast and tried to make Janet give up frying things. Esther is really a dear girl, but she is rather given to fads. The trouble is that she hasn't enough imagination and HAS a tendency to indigestion

Tamara de Lempicka Self Portrait in Green Bugatti painting

Tamara de Lempicka Self Portrait in Green Bugatti painting
Daniel Ridgway Knight The Honeymoon Breakfast painting
You'll come up soon again."
"Yes, very soon. And if there's anything I can do to help you I'll be so glad."
"I know. You HAVE helped me already. Nothing seems quite so dreadful now. Good night, Anne."
"Good night, dear."
Anne walked home very slowly in the moonlight. The evening had changed something for her. Life held a different meaning, a deeper purpose. On the surface it would go on just the same; but the deeps had been stirred. It must not be with her as with poor butterfly Ruby. When she came to the end of one life it must not be to face the next with the shrinking terror of something wholly different -- something for which accustomed thought and ideal and aspiration had unfitted her. The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.
That good night in the garden was for all time. Anne never saw Ruby in life again. The next

Paul McCormack Cavalier painting

Paul McCormack Cavalier painting
Albert Bierstadt Valley in Kings Canyon painting
Marilla may have the right to boss me, but SHE hasn't. I'm going to do every single thing she told me not to do. You watch me."
In grim, deliberate silence, while Dora watched him with the fascination of horror, Davy stepped off the green grass of the roadside, ankle deep into the fine dust which four weeks of rainless weather had made on the road, and marched along in it, shuffling his feet viciously until he was enveloped in a hazy cloud.
"That's the beginning," he announced triumphantly." And I'm going to stop in the porch and talk as long as there's anybody there to talk to. I'm going to squirm and wriggle and whisper, and I'm going to say I don't know the Golden Text. And I'm going to throw away both of my collections RIGHT NOW."
And Davy hurled cent and nickel over Mr. Barry's fence with fierce delight.
"Satan made you do that," said Dora reproachfully.

Pablo Picasso Two Women Running on the Beach The Race painting

Pablo Picasso Two Women Running on the Beach The Race painting
Louis Aston Knight A Bend in the River painting
treetops, filling the golden air with their jubilant voices. The silver fluting of the frogs came from marshes and ponds, over fields where seeds were beginning to stir with life and thrill to the sunshine and rain that had drifted over them. The air was fragrant with the wild, sweet, wholesome smell of young raspberry copses. White mists were hovering in the silent hollows and violet stars were shining bluely on the brooklands.
"What a beautiful sunset," said Diana. "Look, Anne, it's just like a land in itself, isn't it? That long, low back of purple cloud is the shore, and the clear sky further on is like a golden sea."
"If we could sail to it in the moonshine boat Paul wrote of in his old composition -- you remember? -- how nice it would be," said Anne, rousing from her reverie. "Do you think we could find all our yesterdays there, Diana -- all our old springs and blossoms? The beds of flowers that Paul saw there are the roses that have bloomed for us in the past?"
"Don't!" said Diana. "You make me feel as if we were old women with everything in life behind

Vincent van Gogh Cafe Terrace at Night painting

Vincent van Gogh Cafe Terrace at Night painting
Eduard Manet Two Roses On A Tablecloth painting
the horsehair trunk to be packed. . .and the roosters for the chicken salad are running out there beyant the henhouse yet, crowing, Miss Shirley, ma'am. And Miss Lavendar ain't to be trusted to do a thing. I was thankful when Mr. Irving came a few minutes ago and took her off for a walk in the woods. Courting's all right in its place, Miss Shirley, ma'am, but if you try to mix it up with cooking and scouring everything's spoiled. That's my opinion, Miss Shirley, ma'am."
Anne and Diana worked so heartily that by ten o'clock even Charlotta the Fourth was satisfied. She braided her hair in innumerable plaits and took her weary little bones off to bed.
"But I'm sure I shan't sleep a blessed wink, Miss Shirley, ma'am, for fear that something'll go wrong at the last minute. . .the cream won't whip. . .or Mr. Irving'll have a stroke and not be able to come."
"He isn't in the habit of having strokes, is he?" asked Diana, the dimpled corners

Johannes Vermeer The Kitchen Maid painting

Johannes Vermeer The Kitchen Maid painting
Mark Rothko Blue Green and Brown 1951 painting
going to make a prediction. There'll be a wedding in this old stone house before the maple leaves are red. Do you want that translated into prose, Charlotta?"
"No, I can understand that," said Charlotta. "A wedding ain't poetry. Why, Miss Shirley, ma'am, you're crying! What for?"
"Oh, because it's all so beautiful. . .and story bookish. . .and romantic. . .and sad," said Anne, winking the tears out of her eyes. "It's all perfectly lovely. . .but there's a little sadness mixed up in it too, somehow."
"Oh, of course there's a resk in marrying anybody," conceded Charlotta the Fourth, "but, when all's said and done, Miss Shirley, ma'am, there's many a worse thing than a husband."

John Collier Lady Godiva painting

John Collier Lady Godiva painting
Avtandil The Grand Opera painting
cheer Miss Lavendar up."
"That will be the very thing, Miss Shirley, ma'am," exclaimed Charlotta the Fourth in rapture. She was glad for Miss Lavendar's sake and for her own too. With a whole week in which to study Anne constantly she would surely be able to learn how to move and behave like her.
When the girls got back to Echo Lodge they found that Miss Lavendar and Paul had carried the little square table out of the kitchen to the garden and had everything ready for tea. Nothing ever tasted so delicious as those strawberries and cream, eaten under a great blue sky all curdled over with fluffy little white clouds, and in the long shadows of the wood with its lispings and its murmurings. After tea Anne helped Charlotta wash the dishes in the kitchen, while Miss Lavendar sat on the stone bench with Paul and heard all about his rock people. She was a good listener, this sweet Miss Lavendar, but just at the last it struck Paul that she had suddenly lost interest in the Twin Sailors.
"Miss Lavendar, why do you look at me like that?" he asked gravely.

Steve Hanks Silver Strand painting

Steve Hanks Silver Strand painting
Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Painting painting
think Miss Lavendar needs a change, Charlotta. She stays here alone too much. Can't we induce her to go away for a little trip?"
Charlotta shook her head, with its rampant bows, disconsolately.
"I don't think so, Miss Shirley, ma'am. Miss Lavendar hates visiting. She's only got three relations she ever visits and she says she just goes to see them as a family duty. Last time when she come home she said she wasn't going to visit for family duty no more. `I've come home in love with loneliness, Charlotta,' she says to me, `and I never want to stray from my own vine and fig tree again. My relations try so hard to make an old lady of me and it has a bad effect on me.' Just like that, Miss Shirley, ma'am. 'It has a very bad effect on me.' So I don't think it would do any good to coax her to go visiting."
"We must see what can be done," said Anne decidedly, as she put the last possible berry in her pink cup. "Just as soon as I have my vacation I'll come through and spend a whole week with you. We'll have a picnic every day and pretend all sorts of interesting things, and see

Cheri Blum paintings

Cheri Blum paintings
Camille Pissarro paintings
first mother and I could trust him to pick out just as good a one the second time.' And I can trust him, teacher. But still, I hope, if he ever does give me a new mother, he'll ask my opinion about her before it's too late. There's Mary Joe coming to call us to tea. I'll go and consult with her about the shortbread."
As a result of the "consultation," Mary Joe cut the shortbread and added a dish of preserves to the bill of fare. Anne poured the tea and she and Paul had a very merry meal in the dim old sitting room whose windows were open to the gulf breezes, and they talked so much "nonsense" that Mary Joe was quite scandalized and told Veronica the next evening that "de school mees" was as queer as Paul. After tea Paul took Anne up to his room to show her his mother's picture, which had been the mysterious birthday present kept by Mrs. Irving in the bookcase. Paul's little low-

Nancy O'Toole paintings

Nancy O'Toole paintings
Pino paintings
There is an old proverb that really seems at times to be inspired . . ."it never rains but it pours." The measure of that day's tribulations was not yet full. Just as Mr. Allan had finished returning thanks there arose a strange, ominous sound on the stairs, as of some hard, heavy object bounding from step to step, finishing up with a grand smash at the bottom. Everybody ran out into the hall. Anne gave a shriek of dismay.
At the bottom of the stairs lay a big pink conch shell amid the fragments of what had been Miss Barry's platter; and at the top of the stairs knelt a terrified Davy, gazing down with wide-open eyes at the havoc.
"Davy," said Marilla ominously, "did you throw that conch down on purpose?"
"No, I never did," whimpered Davy. "I was just kneeling here, quiet as quiet, to watch you folks

Pablo Picasso paintings

Pablo Picasso paintings
Pierre-Auguste Cot paintings
what the fun was about. There were no green peas on the dinner table that day, however.
"Well," said Anne, sobering down again with a sigh of recollection, "we have the salad anyhow and I don't think anything has happened to the beans. Let's carry the things in and get it over."
It cannot be said that that dinner was a notable success socially. The Allans and Miss Stacy exerted themselves to save the situation and Marilla's customary placidity was not noticeably ruffled. But Anne and Diana, between their disappointment and the reaction from their excitement of the forenoon, could neither talk nor eat. Anne tried heroically to bear her part in the conversation for the sake of her guests; but all the sparkle had been quenched in her for the time being, and, in spite of her love for the Allans and Miss Stacy, she couldn't help thinking how nice it would be when everybody had gone home and she could bury her weariness and disappointment in the pillows of the east gable.

Pablo Picasso Two Women Running on the Beach The Race painting

Pablo Picasso Two Women Running on the Beach The Race painting
Louis Aston Knight A Bend in the River painting
It will mean a good deal of extra work for you. I can't sew a stitch on account of my eyes, so you'll have to see to the making and mending of their clothes. And you don't like sewing."
"I hate it," said Anne calmly, "but if you are willing to take those children from a sense of duty surely I can do their sewing from a sense of duty. It does people good to have to do things they don't like. . .in moderation." Mrs. Rachel Lynde was sitting at her kitchen window, knitting a quilt, just as she had been sitting one evening several years previously when Matthew Cuthbert had driven down over the hill with what Mrs. Rachel called "his imported orphan." But that had been in springtime; and this was late autumn, and all the woods were leafless and the fields sere and brown. The sun was just setting with a great deal of purple and golden pomp behind the dark woods west of Avonlea when a buggy drawn by a comfortable brown nag came down the hill. Mrs. Rachel peered at it eagerly.
"There's Marilla getting home from the funeral," she said to her husband, who was lying on the kitchen

John William Waterhouse The Lady of Shalott painting

John William Waterhouse The Lady of Shalott painting
Claude Monet Water Lily Pond painting
discouraged. But the tide turned after that. Several Sloane homesteads came next, where they got liberal subscriptions, and from that to the end they fared well, with only an occasional snub. Their last place of call was at Robert Dickson's by the pond bridge. They stayed to tea here, although they were nearly home, rather than risk offending Mrs. Dickson, who had the reputation of being a very "touchy" woman.
While they were there old Mrs. James White called in.
"I've just been down to Lorenzo's," she announced. "He's the proudest man in Avonlea this minute. What do you think? There's a brand new boy there. . .and after seven girls that's quite an event, I can tell you." Anne pricked up her ears, and when they drove away she said.
"I'm going straight to Lorenzo White's."
"But he lives on the White Sands road and it's quite a distance out of our, way" protested Diana. "Gilbert and Fred will canvass him."