Monday, June 2, 2008

Picasso Family at Saltimbanquesc painting

Picasso Family at Saltimbanquesc painting
Lempicka Sketch of Madame Allan Bott painting
flower 22007 painting
Rossetti A Vision of Fiammetta painting
``Sameness -- sameness!'' he muttered, the word running through his head like a persecuting tune as he saw the familiar tall-hatted figures lounging behind the plate-glass; and because he usually dropped in at the club at that hour he had gone home instead. He knew not only what they were likely to be talking about, but the part each one would take in the discussion. The Duke of course would be their principal theme; though the appearance in Fifth Avenue of a golden-haired lady in a small canary-coloured brougham with a pair of black
-83-cobs (for which Beaufort was generally thought responsible) would also doubtless be thoroughly gone into. Such ``women'' (as they were called) were few in New York, those driving their own carriages still fewer, and the appearance of Miss Fanny Ring in Fifth Avenue at the fashionable hour had profoundly agitated society. Only the day before, her carriage had passed Mrs. Lovell Mingott's, and the latter had instantly rung the little bell at her elbow and ordered the coachman to drive her home. ``What if it had happened to Mrs. van der Luyden?'' people asked each other with a shudder. Archer could hear Lawrence Lefferts, at that very hour, holding forth on the disintegration of society.

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