Thursday, June 19, 2008

Edward hopper paintings

Edward hopper paintings
Mary Cassatt paintings
To buy his favour I extend this friendship:If he will take it, so; if not, adieu;And, for my love, I pray you wrong me not. –Merchant of Venice.–
As the Palmer, lighted by a domestic with a torch, passed through the intricate combination of apartments of this large and irregular mansion, the cup-bearer coming behind him whispered in his ear, that if he had no objection to a cup of good mead in his apartment, there were many domestics in that family who would gladly hear the news he had brought from the Holy Land, and particularly that which concerned the Knight of Ivanhoe. Wamba presently appeared to urge the same request, observing that a cup after midnight was worth three after curfew. Without disputing a maxim urged by such grave authority, the Palmer thanked them for their courtesy, but observed that he had included in his religious vow an obligation never to speak in the kitchen on matters which were prohibited in the hall. “That vow,” said Wamba to the cup-bearer, “would scarce suit a serving

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