Thomas Kinkade Graceland painting

Thomas Kinkade Graceland paintingThomas Kinkade Fisherman's Wharf paintingThomas Kinkade Cobblestone Bridge painting
liquid luck," said Hermione excitedly. "It makes you lucky!"
The whole class seemed to sit up a little straighter. Now all Harry could see of Malfoy was the back of his sleek blond head, because he was at last giving Slughorn his full and undivided attention.
"Quite right, take another ten points for Gryffindor. Yes, it's a funny little potion, Felix Felicis," said Slughorn. "Desperately tricky to make, and disastrous to get wrong. However, if brewed correctly, as this has been, you will find that all your endeavors tend to succeed ... at least until the effects wear off."
"Why don't people drink it all the time, sir?" said Terry Boot eagerly.
"Because if taken in excess, it causes giddiness, recklessness, and dangerous overconfidence," said Slughorn. "Too much of a good thing, you know. . . highly toxic in large quantities. But taken sparingly, and very occasionally . . ."

William Blake The Resurrection painting

William Blake The Resurrection paintingWilliam Blake Nebuchadnezzar paintingWilliam Blake Los painting
talking; the whole Hall had erupted in a buzz of conversation at the news that Snape had finally achieved his heart’s desire. Seemingly oblivious to the sensational nature of the news he had just imparted, Dumbledore said nothing more about staff appointments, but waited a few seconds to ensure that the silence was absolute before continuing.
"Now, as everybody in this Hall knows, Lord Voldemort and his followers are once more at large and gaining in strength."
The silence seemed to tauten and strain as Dumbledore spoke. Harry glanced at Malfoy. Malfoy was not looking at Dumbledore, but making his fork hover in midair with his wand, as though he found the headmaster's words unworthy of his attention.
"I cannot emphasize strongly enough how dangerous

Edgar Degas dance class painting

Edgar Degas dance class painting
Edgar Degas Ballet Rehearsal painting
　　　Then the sidecar began to fall in earnest, and the remaining Death Eater shot a curse so close to Harry that he had to duck below the rim of the car, knocking out a tooth on the edge of his seat –

"I'm comin', Harry, I'm comin'!"

　　　A huge hand seized the back of Harry's robes and hoisted him out of the plummeting sidecar; Harry pulled his rucksack with him as he dragged himself onto the motorbike's seat and found himself back-to-back with Hagrid. As they soared upward, away from the two remaining Death Eaters, Harry spat blood out of his mouth, pointed his wand at the falling sidecar, and yelled, "Confringo!"

Winslow Homer The Gulf Stream painting

Winslow Homer The Gulf Stream painting
Winslow Homer Children on the Beach painting
Moody, quite unconcerned, was now loosening the ties of the large sacks he had brought with him. When he straightened up again, there were six Harry Potters gasping and panting in front of him.

Fred and George turned to each other and said together, "Wow – we're identical!"

　　　"I dunno, though, I think I'm still better-looking," said Fred, examining his reflection in the kettle.

　　　"Bah," said Fleur, checking herself in the microwave door, "Bill, don't look at me – I'm ‘ideous."

Fabian Perez Man in Black Suit painting

Fabian Perez Man in Black Suit painting
Fabian Perez Flamenco painting
taking Fleur on a thestral," said Bill. "She's not that fond of brooms."

　　　Fleur walked over to stand beside him, giving him a soppy, slavish look that Harry hoped with all his heart would never appear on his face again.

"Miss Granger with Kingsley, again by thestral –"

　　　Hermione looked reassured as she answered Kingsley's smile; Harry knew that Hermione too lacked confidence on a broomstick.

　　　"Which leaves you and me, Ron!" said Tonks brightly, knocking over a mug tree as she waved at him.

Ron did not look quite as pleased as Hermione.

　　　"An' you're with me, Harry. That all righ'?" said Hagrid, looking a little anxious. "We'll be on the bike, brooms an' thestrals can't take me weight, see. Not a lot o' room on the seat with me on it, though, so you'll be in the sidecar."

Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Smile painting

Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Smile painting
Rembrandt The Return of the Prodigal Son painting
the recipients in all groups was observed and ELISA technique was used to detect the level of cytokines in peripheral blood on post-transplant day 7. Results The survival period of recipients in groups A (>60 days) and D (>60 days) was significantly longer than that in group B (13.8±2.4 days). The serum levels of interleukin 2 (IL-2) and interferon γ in group B were significantly higher than those in other groups; the level of tumor necrosis factor α was higher but not statistically significant. In contrast, the serum levels of IL-4 and IL-10 in group D were elevated more significantly than those in group B (P<0.05). Conclusions Combined immune therapy can prolong the survival of allografts. Increased expression of Th2 cytokines, which is closely related to the induction of tolerance and suppression of rejection, is beneficial to the long-term survival of recipients and allografts.

Gustav Klimt The Kiss painting

Gustav Klimt The Kiss painting
Gustav Klimt Sea Serpents painting
the matter of courage we all have our limits. There never was a hero who did not have his bounds. I suppose it may be said of Nelson and all the others whose courage has been advertised that there came times in their lives when their bravery knew it had come to its limit. I have found mine a good many times. Sometimes this was expected -- often it was unexpected. I know a man who is not afraid to sleep with a rattle-snake, but you could not get him to sleep with a safety-razor. I never had the courage to talk across a long, narrow room. I should be at the end of the room facing all the audience. If I attempt to talk across a room I find myself turning this way and that, and thus at alternate periods I have part of the audience behind me. You ought never to have any part of the audience behind you; you never can tell what they are going to do. I'll sit down.

Frida Kahlo Self Portrait with Monkey painting

Frida Kahlo Self Portrait with Monkey painting
Frida Kahlo Diego and Frida painting
Yet another factor leading to the perception of a curse or, at least, of uncommonly bad luck is the association of Kennedy family members with many aspects of American life for decades. Not surprisingly, public knowledge of so many details fosters the perception of more misfortunes. Adding Up CoincidencesThe recent plane crash came on the anniversary both of Ted Kennedy's Chappaquiddick accident and of the achieving of President Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the moon. Some of the crash debris washed up on shore near Jackie Kennedy's Martha's Vineyard home, John Kennedy was on his way to a cousin's wedding in Hyannis Port, and on and on and on.

Edgar Degas Four Dancers painting

Edgar Degas Four Dancers painting
Edgar Degas dance class painting

trader pauses at the NY Stock Exchange just prior to the close of trading in Oct 12, 2000. Stocks plunged to year lows as a bombshell earnings warning from retailer Home Depot Inc. and escalating Mid-East violence spooked an already jittery Wall Street.
NEW YORK - Stocks plunged to year lows on Thursday as a bombshell earnings warning from retailer Home Depot Inc. and escalating Middle East violence spooked an already jittery Wall Street."This market is not in a strong enough state to handle shocks from bad news," said Ed Peters, chief investment strategist and director of asset allocation at PanAgora Asset Management Inc.The Dow Jones industrial average (^DJI - news), a gauge of 30 leading companies, fell a whopping 379.21 points, or 3.64 percent, to end at 10,034.58 -- its fifth-largest point slide ever and its lowest close since March 14, 2000. Three stocks fell for every one that rose on the New York Stock Exchange (news - web sites).

Andrew Atroshenko Just for Love painting

Andrew Atroshenko Just for Love painting
Edward Hopper Sunday painting
For example, numerous B2B companies quoted industry statistics that the business-to-business economy would hit $1.3 trillion by 2003. That those same companies would see but a tiny sliver of that kitty was easy to overlook when the market was more forgiving. Similarly, the long-gone days when companies were valued for the earnings they would generate may well be returning.Boom times are a perfect setting for shenanigans — and other ways of making things appear to be better than they are. But at the end of the day, the Web won’t die because it’s such a good tool for doing our jobs. Dot-com is dead; long live dot-com! There’s still money to be made on the phenomenon — and plenty to be lost.

Michelangelo Buonarroti Creation of Adam painting

Michelangelo Buonarroti Creation of Adam painting
Thomas Kinkade The Rose Garden painting
trade publication Pollstar, 61-year-old Turner outpaced pop heartthrobs 'N Sync, who grossed $76.4 million and rock combo the Dave Matthews Band with $68.2 million. Glam rockers KISS and husband-and-wife country superstars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill rounded out the top five, with $62.7 million and $48.8 million, respectively. Fresno, Calif.-based Pollstar estimated total gross ticket sales reached a new record for the second consecutive year of $1.7 billion, up about 14 percent from 1999's record of $1.5 billion. Turner's haul ranks fifth on the all-time tours of North America, with the Rolling Stones holding the record of $121.2 million from their "Voodoo Lounge" tour of 1994. 'N Sync rank eighth and Dave Matthews Band 10th. Although Turner was tops in ticket receipts, 'N Sync sold more tickets

Tamara de Lempicka The Musician in Blue painting

Tamara de Lempicka The Musician in Blue painting
Daniel Ridgway Knight A Passing Conversation painting

A Russian Mission Control official said on December 26, 2000, that contact had been restored with the unmanned space station Mir. Flight control outside Moscow lost contact with Mir around 3 p.m. local time Christmas Day, sparking intense activity by Russian space experts to restore radio signals with the unmanned craft and avert a potential catastrophe. This picture of Mir was taken from the Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-91 in June 1998.
KOROLYOV, Russia - A top Russian space official on Tuesday ruled out a crash landing by the Mir space station after ground controllers restored contact with the accident-prone craft after an anxious 24 hour break.

Aubrey Beardsley paintings

Aubrey Beardsley paintings
Andrea del Sarto paintings
The diastolic pressure (the lower number) also declined — by 3.5 points with the regular diet and 1.6 points on the low-fat diet. Consuming six grams of salt produced an intermediate benefit. A healthy diet and lower salt intake "both lower blood pressure substantially, with greater effects in combination than singly," Sacks and his colleagues concluded.Reducing blood pressure by three points may not seem like a lot, Dr. Philip Greenland of Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago said in an editorial in the Journal. But the population-wide impact could be significant.A decrease in two diastolic points cuts the risk of high blood pressure by 17 percent, the risk of heart disease by 6 percent and the chance of a stroke or angina by 15 percent.

Tropical paintings

Tropical paintings
Venice paintings
As civilization developed, and people began gathering in towns and cities, it became impossible to remember who had made their donation to the temple or who owned which piece of land. "It was an economic need based on the evolution of society," says Billie Jean Collins, a lecturer on Near Eastern studies at Emory University in Atlanta.So ancient man developed a series of pictures to help — and that became writing. A Unique AnniversaryFive thousand years later, we have automobiles and derivatives trades to keep track of, Shakespeare to read, and an anniversary to celebrate.This week, Iraq is marking the 5,000th anniversary of the invention of the written word with an international conference. Historians and archaeologists

Carl Fredrik Aagard paintings

Carl Fredrik Aagard paintings
Caravaggio paintings
Being innocent or only accused of a crime you have like a deep confidence cause you know you didn't do it," Combs said. "But then also it's the scariest thing because you envision, like, well, what if something goes wrong, I'm gonna be doing some time for something that I didn't do. You know, that's like the worst thing you can imagine." What About J.Lo?He declined to say whether the Club New York shooting put a strain on his relationship with actress-singer Jennifer Lopez (who goes by the nickname J.Lo). The high-profile pair split up during the trial and she has started dating someone new. "The only thing I'll say about Jennifer is she's somebody I'll always love…and

Claude Monet Vetheuil In Summer painting

Claude Monet Vetheuil In Summer painting
Howard Behrens Lake Como Landing painting
Weber couldn't wait to call his wife. "[It was] The happiest I've ever been," he says. "I answered the phone and Jason said, 'I love you,' and I just lost it, I just started crying," says Lisa Weber. But soon, relief turned to curiosity. Why did this happen? Was it necessary for Weber and others to spend 141 days in that jungle? Berg Associates' Larry Johnson, a counter-terrorism director for the U.S. State Department, says security in the Ecuadorean oil fields was woefully lax. "Frankly, I don't know how the guys that run these companies can sleep at night," he says. "It is outrageous because it was preventable." One of the reasons terrorists target employees of private industry is because the U.S. government is unlikely to intervene. "Unless it's an official U.S. employee," Johnson says, "Unless it involves a U.S. government entity, the U.S. government is not getting involved."

Thomas Kinkade NASCAR THUNDER painting

Thomas Kinkade NASCAR THUNDER painting
Vladimir Volegov Beauty painting

If you think cloning is just about creating identical sheep, you better grab hold of your wallet. Cloning, also known as skimming, is a burgeoning and highly effective form of credit card fraud.
Skimming is costing credit card users stateside and worldwide millions in phony charges, as stolen clones are sold and used in the United States and elsewhere around the globe.The practice took off in the United States several years ago and is beginning to approach the scale of fraud that plagued credit cards in the early 1990s before new precautions were taken, according to Gregg James, a special agent with the Secret Service's Financial Crimes Division in Washington.

Claude Monet Winter At Giverny painting

Claude Monet Winter At Giverny painting
Claude Monet Train In The Country painting
said 'you know what Halle, you've been fighting this battle in Hollywood for 10 years with your arms tied behind your back because you've never played that card. That's very much a part of who you are, go for it,'" she said. Bonet is also a part of who she has become. Secret Wedding"He just brings so much joy like I never thought I could have," Berry said. "Not so much happiness. I learned that you have to find happiness within yourself and you have to be comfortable within your own skin. So I don't look to him for that but he just brings me joy, peace of mind and calmness." Her engagement, elopement plans, and the wedding went off quietly — by design. "We were determined to make it private and personal and do it our way," she said. "Be selfish, make it about us. So that after it was over, we could look back and remember it fondly and enjoy our moment."

Andreas Achenbach paintings

Andreas Achenbach paintings
Alphonse Maria Mucha paintings

Diamonds are crystals of pure carbon and they form in the Earth's upper mantle, the region of rock that lies just below the outer crust.A young African tribesman was walking near the Orange River in what is now South Africa in 1868 when he discovered a glassy stone that caught his fancy.
The youth, known today only as Swartboy, took the stone to a local man, who was known to like colorful rocks, in hopes of exchanging it for a night's lodging. Schalk van Niekerk, so the story goes, astonished Swartboy when he offered to trade all of his livestock, including 500 sheep, 10 cows and a horse, for the stone.It wasn't the first diamond discovered in southern Africa, but at that point it was the most spectacular, an 83.5-carat gem that Van Niekerk sold for a small fortune, setting off a frantic and ruthless quest for riches.

Andrea del Sarto paintings

Andrea del Sarto paintings
Alexandre Cabanel paintings
We're having the last days of the House of Windsor," said Michael Cole, a former Buckingham Palace correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corp.Sentiment for the monarchy has been steadily decreasing, and the country in general has been drifting toward republicanism, he said."Tony Blair is creating a presidential style of premiership," he said. While older people still have an affinity for the royals, young people are largely indifferent, Cole said.They would much rather be citizens than subjects, he said.Cole blames some of this dwindling enthusiasm as what he sees as Queen Elizabeth II's failure to adapt to the changing needs of her people."The queen has been fantastically unimaginative," he said.Cole acknowledged that the royal family is also a major tourist attraction, and one of the most recognizable aspects of Britain. But he observed that people still visit St. Petersburg, even though Russia's czars have long since departed.

impressionist painting

impressionist painting
Knight painting
your footsteps."Poitier, who won his Oscar in 1963 for Lilies of the Field, received special honors earlier in the evening."Before Sidney, African-American actors had to take supporting roles that were easy to cut out in certain parts of the country," Washington said. "But you couldn't cut Sidney Poitier out of a Sidney Poitier picture.""I arrived in Hollywood at the age of 22, at a time that was different than today's," Poitier recalled. "[It was] a time in which the odds against me standing here tonight 53 years later would not have fallen in my favor," he said. "Back then no route had been established for where I was hoping to go."Only 26 black actors have been nominated for Academy Awards. Before tonight, only six had won — including Washington, who won a Supporting Actor award for Glory in 1989.A Feathered Whoopi Enters

Oriental paintings

Oriental paintings
Piano painting

Over 80 per cent of the couples were prepared to spend around 60,000 yuan on the wedding. About 5-8 per cent of people would spend more than that, and this percentage is steadily rising
THE approaching National Day Holiday is going to be special for Jason Li. 　　The 28-year-old is finally ending his bachelorhood. Also coming to an end are his bank savings, accumulated over the years. 　　"I had never thought marrying would be so dear," Li said. 　　The studio wedding photos alone cost him 5,000 yuan (US). "But it is indispensable, as my fiancee firmly believes that a woman becomes most beautiful when she wears the wedding gown, so that moment must be captured and kept forever," Li said, forcing a smile.

William Bouguereau Evening Mood painting

William Bouguereau Evening Mood painting
Douglas Hofmann Reclining Nude I painting

South African Philip Rabinowitz has become the world's fastest 100-year-old, slashing more than five seconds off the record for the 100 metre sprint for centenarians. He works as a bookkeeper ...
South African Philip Rabinowitz has become the world's fastest 100-year-old, slashing more than five seconds off the record for the 100 metre sprint for centenarians. 南非百岁老人菲利浦·拉比诺维茨成为世界上跑100米最快的百岁高龄者, 比百岁高龄者跑一百米的最高记录快出5秒见多。"Oh I feel wonderful now, absolutely wonderful," Rabinowitz said after finishing in a time of 30.86 seconds and breaking the previous mark of 36.19 set by Austrian Erwin Jaskulski.

Henri Fantin-Latour Flowers in a Bowl painting

Henri Fantin-Latour Flowers in a Bowl painting
James Jacques Joseph Tissot The Bunch of Violets painting

Thousands of doll-sized copies of the Olympic mascots, Phevos and Athena mascots, are now on sale at all Olympic venues. They are all labeled "Made in China." Big-footed Athens Olympics mascots are...
The Olympic mascots, Athena (L) and Phevos, pose for photographers in Athens. 2004年希腊雅典夏季奥运会吉祥物Athena（雅典娜左）和Phevos（费沃斯）。Big-footed Athens Olympics mascots in voluminous plush suits of orange and blue are lifesize renditions of unearthed terracotta dolls dating back 5,000 years.他们长着大脚丫，一个穿着深黄色长毛绒衣服，一个穿着深蓝色长毛绒衣服。吉祥物正是古希腊出土的5000年前的陶土雕塑玩偶“达伊达拉”的翻版。

Guan zeju paintings

Guan zeju paintings
Gustav Klimt paintings
An elliptic orbit is characterized by the eccentricity, which is how much a planet's distance from its star varies as it carves out a year. Most of the planets in our solar system have relatively low eccentricities, less than about 5 percent (tiny Pluto being a notable exception and considered not really a planet by some astronomers).By contrast, the average eccentricity of extrasolar planets is about 25 percent. And these are not Plutos. They are typically more massive than Jupiter.Some have eccentricities of 80 percent, which is as high as the crazy orbits of some comets in our solar system.Marcy and others detect extrasolar planets - most often induce in their host stars. This planet-star swing dance might seem to be more noticeable when the planets orbit is highly eccentric, but Marcy said that is not true. As more and more planets are found, it appears that high eccentricities are common, making our solar system more the exception than the rule

Albert Bierstadt paintings

Albert Bierstadt paintings
Andreas Achenbach paintings
Stand with legs hip-width apart and knees slightly bent. Rest your hands on your upper thighs. Inhale, then as you exhale, draw your abs in toward your spine and simultaneously tilt your pelvis forward by contracting your butt and pointing your tailbone down. Hold for a count of give. Do 10 times.
Do you rerun memories about happy moments you and he spent together, sharing warmth and professing tenderness? Do you then wonder how those joyful times suddenly evaporated? Now you're sitting on love's doorstep, chilly and heartbroken, craving the affection you once shared.
Do you rerun memories about happy moments you and he spent together, sharing warmth and professing tenderness? Do you then wonder how those joyful times suddenly evaporated? Now you're sitting on love's doorstep, chilly and heartbroken, craving the affection you once shared. Turns out that Romeo decided it was time to move on — without you. Ouch.

wholesale oil painting

wholesale oil painting
Make sure you talk with local architects who know the ins and outs of the local zoning and permitting departments. You may want to have preliminary drawings done, but don't spend money on a complete set of architectural plans until you're sure you want to move forward. Once you know the renovation is feasible, consult with contractors to get ballpark estimates of how much the project will cost.First time tip: Homeowners often make the mistake of assuming that they'll recoup the full cost of a major renovation when they sell. This is rarely the case, unless you own the property for a significant time after the renovations are completed. So don't undertake a major remodel unless you plan to stay in your home for the long run.It's a good idea to talk to your real estate agent to make sure that renovations you're contemplating won't over-improve your home relative to other homes in the neighborhood.

Frank Dicksee Romeo and Juliet painting

Frank Dicksee Romeo and Juliet painting
Guillaume Seignac Cupid Disarmed painting
children, so my first song that I learnt to sing as soon as I was able to talk was
“The Red is the East and rises the Sun”.
I was told to study hard for the course of the Chinese revolution, so my first nursery rhyme I learnt by heart was
“Sparkling is the star in the sky,Looking towards the direction of Beijing by standing on the bridge,Keep looking until you see the TaiAnMen Square,Our greatest Savior is Chairman Mao.”
When I went to primary school, I was told the foreign language was a must tool in a struggle against the Imperialism, the Revisionism, and the Reactionary, so my first English lesson was nothing but
“Long live Chairman Mao and long long life to Chairman Mao”,
And again I was told there were about two-third of people in the world still living in the deep water and scorching fire – an abyss of suffering and extreme miseries, so my first lecture for the revolutionary politics was
“Never forget the class struggle”.The wheel of fortune has never stopped spinning, good to bad and bad to good, and no one is able to reverse the course of a life journey. Whatever my life is going to be like at the end of my day, despite it has been relentlessly destined to have a lot of pitfalls, I would always give it my best shot, as I firmly believe the wheel of fortune will turn.

Winslow Homer paintings

Winslow Homer paintings
William Bouguereau paintings
space to breathe in and to push on through. His need was to exist, and to move onwards at the greatest possible risk, and with a maximum of privation. If the absolutely pure, uncalculating, unpractical spirit of adventure had ever ruled a human being, it ruled this be-patched youth. I almost envied him the possession of this modest and clear flame. It seemed to have consumed all thought of self so completely, that even while he was talking to you, you forgot that it was he - the man before your eyes - who had gone through these things. I did not envy him his devotion to Kurtz, though. He had not meditated over it. It came to him, and he accepted it with a sort of eager fatalism. I must say that to me it appeared about the most dangerous thing in every way he had come upon so far.
“They had come together unavoidably, like two ships becalmed near each other, and lay rubbing sides at last. I suppose Kurtz wanted an audience, because on a certain occasion, when encamped in the forest, they had talked all night, or more probably Kurtz had talked. ‘We talked of everything,’ he said, quite transported at the recollection. ‘I forgot there was such a thing as sleep. The night did not seem to last an hour. Everything! Everything!... Of love, too.’ ‘Ah, he talked to you of love!’ I said, much amused. ‘It isn’t what you think,’ he cried, almost passionately. ‘It was in general. He made me see things - things.’

childe hassam Geraniums painting

childe hassam Geraniums painting
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida El bano del caballo [The Horse's Bath] painting
little house. The old jokes and laughter and chumminess of common things could not reach her over it. Anne refused to feel hurt. She knew that Leslie was in the grip of a hideous dread--a dread that wrapped her away from all little glimpses of happiness and hours of pleasure. When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded aside. Never in all her life had Leslie Moore shuddered away from the future with more intolerable terror. But she went forward as unswervingly in the path she had elected as the martyrs of old walked their chosen way, knowing the end of it to be the fiery agony of the stake.
The financial question was settled with greater ease than Anne had feared. Leslie borrowed the necessary money from Captain Jim, and, at her insistence, he took a mortgage on the little farm.
"So that is one thing off the poor girl's mind," Miss Cornelia told Anne, "and off mine too. Now, if Dick gets well enough to work again he'll be able to earn enough to pay the interest on it

Flamenco Dancer dance series painting

Flamenco Dancer dance series painting
Jules Joseph Lefebvre Mary Magdalene In The Cave painting
voice went soaring skyward and the rest joined in, poor Ikey wakened with a start. He thought it was just an ordinary singing and that everybody ought to stand up, so he scrambled to his feet mighty quick, knowing he'd get a combing down from Maria Millison for sleeping in meeting. Fiske saw him, stopped and shouted, `Another soul saved! Glory Hallelujah!' And there was poor, frightened Ikey, only half awake and yawning, never thinking about his soul at all. Poor child, he never had time to think of anything but his tired, overworked little body.
"Leslie went one night and the Fiske-man got right after her--oh, he was especially anxious about the souls of the nice-looking girls, believe me!--and he hurt her feelings so she never went again. And then he prayed every night after that, right in public, that the Lord would soften her hard heart. Finally I went to Mr. Leavitt, our minister then, and told him if he didn't make Fiske stop that I'd just rise up the next night and throw my hymn book at him when he mentioned that `beautiful but unrepentant young woman.' I'd have done it too, believe me. Mr. Leavitt

Gustav Klimt Death and Life painting

Gustav Klimt Death and Life painting
Alexandre Cabanel Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners painting
the lighthouse or up the Glen road. But Miss Cornelia and Captain Jim came very often to the little house. Miss Cornelia was the joy of Anne's and Gilbert's existence. They laughed side-splittingly over her speeches after every visit. When Captain Jim and she happened to visit the little house at the same time there was much sport for the listening. They waged wordy warfare, she attacking, he defending. Anne once reproached the Captain for his baiting of Miss Cornelia.
"Oh, I do love to set her going, Mistress Blythe," chuckled the unrepentant sinner. "It's the greatest amusement I have in life. That tongue of hers would blister a stone. And you and that young dog of a doctor enj'y listening to her as much as I do."
Captain Jim came along another evening to bring Anne some mayflowers. The garden was full of the moist, scented air of a maritime spring evening. There was a milk-white mist on the edge of the sea, with a young moon kissing it, and a silver gladness of stars over the Glen. The bell of the church across the harbor was ringing dreamily sweet. The mellow chime drifted through the dusk to mingle with the soft spring-moan of the sea. Captain Jim's mayflowers added the last completing touch to the charm of the night.

Joan Miro paintings

Joan Miro paintings
Jean-Honore Fragonard paintings
and is glad of it-- somewhere else. I've read somewhere that `our dead are never dead until we have forgotten them.' Matthew will never be dead to me, for I can never forget him."
She left on his grave the flowers she had brought and walked slowly down the long hill. It was a gracious evening, full of delectable lights and shadows. In the west was a sky of mackerel clouds-- crimson and amber-tinted, with long strips of apple-green sky between. Beyond was the glimmering radiance of a sunset sea, and the ceaseless voice of many waters came up from the tawny shore. All around her, lying in the fine, beautiful country silence, were the hills and fields and woods she had known and loved so long.
"History repeats itself," said Gilbert, joining her as she passed the Blythe gate. "Do you remember our first walk down this hill, Anne--our first walk together anywhere, for that matter?"
"I was coming home in the twilight from Matthew's grave--and you

Guido Reni paintings

Guido Reni paintings
George Inness paintings
Have you made up your mind who you're going to have to the wedding, Anne?" asked Mrs. Rachel Lynde, as she hemstitched table napkins industriously. "It's time your invitations were sent, even if they are to be only informal ones."
"I don't mean to have very many," said Anne. "We just want those we love best to see us married. Gilbert's people, and Mr. and Mrs. Allan, and Mr. and Mrs. Harrison."
"There was a time when you'd hardly have numbered Mr. Harrison among your dearest friends," said Marilla drily.
"Well, I wasn't very strongly attracted to him at our first meeting," acknowledged Anne, with a laugh over the recollection. "But Mr. Harrison has improved on acquaintance, and Mrs. Harrison is really a dear. Then, of course, there are Miss Lavendar and Paul."
"Have they decided to come to the Island this summer? I thought they were going to Europe."
"They changed their minds when I wrote them I was going to be married. I had a letter

Claude Lorrain paintings

Claude Lorrain paintings
Claude Monet paintings
to his name.'"
Anne laughed.
"My dresses are nice. I love pretty things. I remember the first pretty dress I ever had--the brown gloria Matthew gave me for our school concert. Before that everything I had was so ugly. It seemed to me that I stepped into a new world that night."
"That was the night Gilbert recited `Bingen on the Rhine,' and looked at you when he said, `There's another, not a sister.' And you were so furious because he put your pink tissue rose in his breast pocket! You didn't much imagine then that you would ever marry him."
"Oh, well, that's another instance of predestination," laughed Anne, as they went down the garret stairs. `You've got a new clock at Green Gables, haven't you?' I couldn't imagine what you meant. I heard ills that we have than fly to others that we know not of."
Anne's laugh, as blithe and irresistible a

John William Waterhouse Gather ye rosebuds while ye may painting

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida El bano del caballo [The Horse's Bath] painting
John William Waterhouse Gather ye rosebuds while ye may painting
shimmering, mysterious place, full of wizardry in the white-woven enchantment of moonlight. There had been a time when such a walk with Gilbert through Lovers' Lane would have been far too dangerous. But Roy and Christine had made it very safe now. Anne found herself thinking a good deal about Christine as she chatted lightly to Gilbert. She had met her several times before leaving Kingsport, and had been charmingly sweet to her. Christine had also been charmingly sweet. Indeed, they were a most cordial pair. But for all that, their acquaintance had not ripened into friendship. Evidently Christine was not a kindred spirit.
"Are you going to be in Avonlea all summer?" asked Gilbert.
"No. I'm going down east to Valley Road next week. Esther Haythorne wants me to teach for her through July and August. They have a summer term in that school, and Esther isn't feeling well. So I'm going to substitute for her. In one way I don't mind. Do you know, I'm beginning to feel a little bit like a stranger in Avonlea now? It makes me sorry --

Albert Bierstadt Yosemite Valley painting

Albert Bierstadt Yosemite Valley painting
John William Godward The Delphic Oracle painting
"You goose!" said Anne loftily. But she lay long awake that night, nor did she wish for sleep. Her waking fancies were more alluring than any vision of dreamland. Had the real Prince come at last? Recalling those glorious dark eyes which had gazed so deeply into her own, Anne was very strongly inclined to think he had. The girls at Patty's Place were dressing for the reception which the Juniors were giving for the Seniors in February. Anne surveyed herself in the mirror of the blue room with girlish satisfaction. She had a particularly pretty gown on. Originally it had been only a simple little slip of cream silk with a chiffon overdress. But Phil had insisted on taking it home with her in the Christmas holidays and embroidering tiny rosebuds all over the chiffon. Phil's fingers were deft, and the result was a dress which was the envy of every Redmond girl. Even Allie Boone, whose frocks came from Paris, was wont to look with longing eyes on that rosebud concoction as Anne trailed up the main staircase at Redmond in it.
Anne was trying the effect of a white orchid in her hair. Roy Gardner had sent her white orchids for the reception, and she knew no other Redmond girl would have them that night -- when Phil came in with admiring gaze.
"Anne, this is certainly your night for looking

Yvonne Jeanette Karlsen Eva painting

Yvonne Jeanette Karlsen Eva painting
Fabian Perez Callesde San Telmo II painting
melting, musical, sympathetic voice -- yes, the very hero of her dreams stood before her in the flesh. He could not have more closely resembled her ideal if he had been made to order.
"Thank you," she said confusedly.
"We'd better hurry over to that little pavillion on the point," suggested the unknown. "We can wait there until this shower is over. It is not likely to rain so heavily very long."
The words were very commonplace, but oh, the tone! And the smile which accompanied them! Anne felt her heart beating strangely.
Together they scurried to the pavilion and sat breathlessly down under its friendly roof. Anne laughingly held up her false umbrella.
"It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things," she said gaily.

Pino Sweet Repose painting

Pino Sweet Repose painting
Johannes Vermeer The Kitchen Maid painting
Bolingbroke some day. But I can't go this year -- I MUST go home. You don't know how my heart longs for it."
"You won't have much of a time," said Phil scornfully. "There'll be one or two quilting parties, I suppose; and all the old gossips will talk you over to your face and behind your back. You'll die of lonesomeness, child."
"In Avonlea?" said Anne, highly amused.
"Now, if you'd come with me you'd have a perfectly gorgeous time. Bolingbroke would go wild over you, Queen Anne -- your hair and your style and, oh, everything! You're so DIFFERENT. You'd be such a success -- and I would bask in reflected glory -- `not the rose but near the rose.' Do come, after all, Anne."
"Your picture of social triumphs is quite fascinating, Phil, but I'll paint one to offset it. I'm going home to an old country farmhouse, once green, rather faded now, set among leafless apple orchards. There is a brook below and a December fir wood beyond, where I've heard harps swept by the fingers of rain and wind. There is a pond nearby that will be gray and brooding now. There will be two oldish ladies in the house, one tall and thin, one short and fat; and there will be

Leonardo da Vinci the picture of the last supper painting

Leonardo da Vinci the picture of the last supper painting
Pierre-Auguste Cot Springtime painting
For the next three weeks Anne and Priscilla continued to feel as strangers in a strange land. Then, suddenly, everything seemed to fall into focus -- Redmond, professors, classes, students, studies, social doings. Life became homogeneous again, instead of being made up of detached fragments. The Freshmen, instead of being a collection of unrelated individuals, found themselves a class, with a class spirit, a class yell, class interests, class antipathies and class ambitions. They won the day in the annual "Arts Rush" against the Sophomores, and thereby gained the respect of all the classes, and an enormous, confidence-giving opinion of themselves. For three years the Sophomores had won in the "rush"; that the victory of this year perched upon the Freshmen's banner was attributed to the strategic generalship of Gilbert Blythe, who marshalled the campaign and originated certain new tactics, which demoralized the Sophs and swept the Freshmen to triumph. As a reward of merit he was elected president of the Freshman Class, a

Jules Breton paintings

Jules Breton paintings
Johannes Vermeer paintings
was all riled up, Anne, and I said she might stay till doomsday if she waited for that; and I stuck to it. I packed up her belongings and sent them after her. It made an awful lot of talk . . .Scottsford was pretty near as bad as Avonlea for gossip. . .and everybody sympathized with Emily. It kept me all cross and cantankerous and I saw I'd have to get out or I'd never have any peace. I concluded I'd come to the Island. I'd been here when I was a boy and I liked it; but Emily had always said she wouldn't live in a place where folks were scared to walk out after dark for fear they'd fall off the edge. So, just to be contrary, I moved over here. And that's all there is to it. I hadn't ever heard a word from or about Emily till I come home from the back field Saturday and found her scrubbing the floor but with the first decent dinner I'd had since she left me all ready on the table. She told me to eat it first and then we'd talk. . .by which I concluded

Frederic Remington paintings

Frederic Remington paintings
Francisco de Goya paintings
moment too soon and were joined at the door by Marilla, who had been hustling her ducks and chickens under shelter. As they dashed into the kitchen the light seemed to vanish, as if blown out by some mighty breath; the awful cloud rolled over the sun and a darkness as of late twilight fell across the world. At the same moment, with a crash of thunder and a blinding glare of lightning, the hail swooped down and blotted the landscape out in one white fury.
Through all the clamor of the storm came the thud of torn branches striking the house and the sharp crack of breaking glass. In three minutes every pane in the west and north windows was broken and the hail poured in through the apertures covering the floor with stones, the smallest of which was as big as a hen's egg. For three quarters of an hour the storm raged unabated and no one who underwent it ever forgot it. Marilla, for once in her life shaken out of her composure by sheer terror, knelt by her rocking chair in a corner of the kitchen, gasping and sobbing

Anne-Francois-Louis Janmot paintings

Anne-Francois-Louis Janmot paintings
Allan R.Banks paintings
So we were. . .twenty-five years ago. . .a lifetime ago. And we were to have been married the next spring. I had my wedding dress made, although nobody but mother and Stephen ever knew that. We'd been engaged in a way almost all our lives, you might say. When Stephen was a little boy his mother would bring him here when she came to see my mother; and the second time he ever came. . . he was nine and I was six. . .he told me out in the garden that he had pretty well made up his mind to marry me when he grew up. I remember that I said `Thank you'; and when he was gone I told mother very gravely that there was a great weight off my mind, because I wasn't frightened any more about having to be an old maid. How poor mother laughed!"
"And what went wrong?" asked Anne breathlessly.
"We had just a stupid, silly, commonplace quarrel. So commonplace that, if you'll believe me, I don't even remember just how it began. I hardly know who was the more to blame for it. Stephen did really begin it, but I suppose I provoked him by some foolishness of mine. He had a rival or two,

China oil paintings

China oil paintings
from a town in British Columbia.
"It's probably from the children's uncle," she said excitedly, when she got home. "Oh, Marilla, I wonder what he says about them."
"The best plan might be to open it and see," said Marilla curtly. A close observer might have thought that she was excited also, but she would rather have died than show it.
Anne tore open the letter and glanced over the somewhat untidy and poorly written contents.
"He says he can't take the children this spring. . .he's been sick most of the winter and his wedding is put off. He wants to know if we can keep them till the fall and he'll try and take them then. We will, of course, won't we Marilla?"

Tamara de Lempicka The Musician in Blue painting

Tamara de Lempicka The Musician in Blue painting
Daniel Ridgway Knight A Passing Conversation painting
business end of a grubbing fork. Marilla and Anne stood by, cold and shaken with horror and dread, while Mr. Barry dragged the well, and Davy, astride the gate, watched the group with a face indicative of huge enjoyment.
Finally Mr. Barry shook his head, with a relieved air.
"She can't be down there. It's a mighty curious thing where she could have got to, though. Look here, young man, are you sure you've no idea where your sister is?"
"I've told you a dozen times that I haven't," said Davy, with an injured air. "Maybe a tramp come and stole her."
"Nonsense," said Marilla sharply, relieved from her horrible fear of the well. "Anne, do you suppose she could have strayed over to Mr. Harrison's? She has always been talking about his parrot ever since that time you took her over"
"I can't believe Dora would venture so far alone but I'll go over and see," said Anne.
Nobody was looking at Davy just then or it would have been seen that a very decided change came over

Theodore Chasseriau Apollo and Daphne painting

Theodore Chasseriau Apollo and Daphne painting
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Virgin of the Adoption painting
Peter Sloane, who was a magistrate.
"You'll have to pay it," Peter told him. "You can't hold him responsible for the mistake, since he claims he was never told what the color was supposed to be but just given the cans and told to go ahead. But it's a burning shame and that hall certainly does look awful."
The luckless Improvers expected that Avonlea would be more prejudiced than ever against them; but instead, public sympathy veered around in their favor. People thought the eager, enthusiastic little band who had worked so hard for their object had been badly used. Mrs. Lynde told them to keep on and show the Pyes that there really were people in the world who could do things without making a muddle of them. Mr. Major Spencer sent them word that he would clean out all the stumps along the road front of his farm and seed it down with grass at his own expense; and Mrs. Hiram Sloane called at the school one day and beckoned Anne mysteriously out into the porch to tell her that if the "Sassiety" wanted to make a geranium bed at the crossroads in the spring they needn't be afraid of her cow, for she would see that the marauding

Edgar Degas paintings

Edgar Degas paintings
Emile Munier paintings
Something about the firm outlines of Anne's lips told that Mrs. Rachel was not far astray in this estimate. Anne's heart was bent on forming the Improvement Society. Gilbert Blythe, who was to teach in White Sands but would always be home from Friday night to Monday morning, was enthusiastic about it; and most of the other folks were willing to go in for anything that meant occasional meetings and consequently some "fun." As for what the "improvements" were to be, nobody had any very clear idea except Anne and Gilbert. They had talked them over and planned them out until an ideal Avonlea existed in their minds, if nowhere else.
Mrs. Rachel had still another item of news.
"They've given the Carmody school to a Priscilla Grant. Didn't you go to Queen's with a girl of that name, Anne?"
"Yes, indeed. Priscilla to teach at Carmody! How perfectly lovely!" exclaimed