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."