Pierre Auguste Renoir The First Outing painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir The First Outing paintingPierre Auguste Renoir Les baigneuses paintingPierre Auguste Renoir La Moulin de la Galette painting
Now, I must give you warning that Felix Felicis is a banned substance in organized competitions . . . sporting events, for instance, examinations, or elections. So the winner is to use it on an ordinary day only . . . and watch how that ordinary day becomes extraordinary!"
"So," said Slughorn, suddenly brisk, "how are you to win this fabulous prize? Well, by turning to page ten of Advanced Potion Making. We have a little over an hour left to us, which should be time for you to make a decent attempt at the Draught of Living Death. I know it is more complex than anything you have attempted before, and I do not expect a perfect potion from anybody. The person who does best, however, will win little Felix here. Off you go!"
There was a scraping as everyone drew their cauldrons toward them and some loud clunks as people

Edward Hopper Cape Cod Morning painting

Edward Hopper Cape Cod Morning paintingAmedeo Modigliani the Reclining Nude paintingAmedeo Modigliani Seated Nude painting
Oho! ‘One of my best friends is Muggle-born, and she's the best in our year!' I'm assuming this is the very friend of whom you spoke, Harry?"
"Yes, sir," said Harry.
"Well, well, take twenty well-earned points for Gryffindor, Miss Granger," said Slughorn genially.
Malfoy looked rather as he had done the time Hermione had punched him in the face. Hermione turned to Harry with a radiant expression and whispered, "Did you really tell him I'm the best in the year? Oh, Harry!"
"Well, what's so impressive about that?" whispered Ron, who for some reason looked annoyed. "You are the best in the year - I'd've told him so if he'd asked me!"
Hermione smiled but made a "shhing" gesture, so that they could hear what Slughorn was saying. Ron looked slightly disgruntled.

Winslow Homer Gloucester Harbor painting

Winslow Homer Gloucester Harbor paintingEdward Hopper The Long Leg paintingEdward Hopper The Camel's Hump painting
Harry too had recognized the slow-bubbling, mudlike substance the second cauldron, but did not resent Hermione getting the credit for answering the question; she, after all, was the one who had succeeded in making it, back in their second year. "Excellent, excellent! Now, this one here . . . yes, my dear?" said Slughorn, now looking slightly bemused, as Hermione's hand punched the air again.
"It's Amortentia!"
"It is indeed. Ir seems almost foolish to ask," said Slughorn, who was looking mightily impressed, "but I assume you know what it does?"
“It's the most powerful love porion in the world!" said Hermione.
“Quite right! You recognized it, I suppose, by its distinctive mother-of-pearl sheen?"

William Blake Nebuchadnezzar painting

William Blake Nebuchadnezzar painting
William Blake Los painting
What's this?" Hermione asked eventually, holding up what looked like a small telescope.
"Dunno," said Ron, "but if Fred and George left it here, it's probably not ready for the joke shop yet, so be careful"
"Your mum said the shop's going well," said Harry. "Said Fred and George have got a real flair for Business."
"That's an understatement," said Ron. "They're raking in the Galleons! I can't wait to see the place, we haven't been to Diagon Alley yet, because Mum says Dad's got to be there for extra security and he's been really busy at work, but it sounds excellent."
"And what about Percy?" asked Harry; the third-eldest Weasley brother had fallen out with the rest of the family. "Is he talking to your mum and dad again?"
"Nope," said Ron.
"But he knows your dad was right all along now about Voldemort being back..."

Unknown Artist Jasper Johns three flags painting

Unknown Artist Jasper Johns three flags paintingWilliam Blake The Resurrection painting
didn't know that could happen," said Harry.
"Nor did I," said Hermione, "but I suppose if you're really depressed..."
The door opened again and Mrs. Weasley popped her head in. "Ginny," she whispered, "come downstairs and help me with the lunch."
"I'm talking to this lot!" said Ginny, outraged.
"Now!" said Mrs. Weasley, and withdrew.
"She only wants me there so she doesn't have to be alone with Phlegm!" said Ginny crossly. She swung her long red hair around in a very good imitation of Fleur and pranced across the room with her arms held aloft like a ballerina.
"You lot had better come down quickly too," she said as she left.
Harry took advantage of the temporary silence to eat more breakfast. Hermione was peering into Fred and George's boxes, though every now and then she cast sideways looks at Harry. Ron, who was now helping himself to Harry...s toast, was still gazing dreamily at the door.

Georges Seurat The Circus painting

Georges Seurat The Circus painting
Georges Seurat Le Chahut painting
Tonks and Sirius barely knew each other!" said Ron. "Sirius was in Azkaban half her life and before that their families never met..."
"That's not the point," said Hermione. "She thinks it was her limit he died!"
"How does she work that one out?" asked Harry, in spite of himself.
"Well, she was fighting Bellatrix Lestrange, wasn't she? I think she feels that if only she had finished her off, Bellatrix couldn't have killed Sirius."
"That's stupid," said Ron.
"It's survivor's guilt," said Hermione. "I know Lupin's tried to talk her round, but she's still really down. She's actually having trouble with her Metamorphosing!"
"With her...?"
"She can't change her appearance like she used to," explained Hermione. "I think her powers must have been affected by shock, or something."

Gustave Courbet Plage de Normandie painting

Gustave Courbet Plage de Normandie painting
Thomas Kinkade HOMETOWN MORNING painting
Good. Very good. And this information comes –"

" – from the source we discussed," said Snape.

"My Lord."

　　　Yaxley had leaned forward to look down the long table at Voldemort and Snape. All faces turned to him.

"My Lord, I have heard differently."

　　　Yaxley waited, but Voldemort did not speak, so he went on, "Dawlish, the Auror, let slip that Potter will not be moved until the thirtieth, the night before the boy turns seventeen."

Snape was smiling.

Guido Reni reni Aurora painting

Guido Reni reni Aurora painting
Francois Boucher The Toilet of Venus painting
The hallway was large, dimly lit, and sumptuously decorated, with a magnificent carpet covering most of the stone floor. The eyes of the pale-faced portraits on the wall followed Snape and Yaxley as they strode past. The two men halted at a heavy wooden door leading into the next room, hesitated for the space of a heartbeat, then Snape turned the bronze handle.

　　　The drawing room was full of silent people, sitting at a long and ornate table. The room's usual furniture had been pushed carelessly up against the walls. Illumination came from a roaring fire beneath a handsome marble mantelpiece surmounted by a gilded mirror. Snape and Yaxley lingered for a moment on the threshold. As their eyes grew accustomed to the lack of light, they were drawn upward to the strangest feature of the scene: an apparently unconscious human figure hanging upside down over the table, revolving slowly as if suspended by an invisible rope, and reflected in the mirror and in the bare, polished surface of the table below. None of the people seated underneath this

Ingres Perseus and Andromeda painting

Ingres Perseus and Andromeda painting
Guido Reni Baptism of Christ painting
The yew hedges muffled the sound of the men's footsteps. There was a rustle somewhere to their right: Yaxley drew his wand again pointing it over his companion's head, but the source of the noise proved to be nothing more than a pure-white peacock, strutting majestically along the top of the hedge.

　　　"He always did himself well, Lucius. Peacocks …" Yaxley thrust his wand back under his cloak with a snort.

　　　A handsome manor house grew out of the darkness at the end of the straight drive, lights glinting in the diamond paned downstairs windows. Somewhere in the dark garden beyond the hedge a fountain was playing. Gravel crackled beneath their feet as Snape and Yaxley sped toward the front door, which swung inward at their approach, though nobody had visibly opened it.

Edward Hopper Nighthawks painting

Edward Hopper Nighthawks painting
Frederic Edwin Church Sunset painting
interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The almighty has His own purposes. “Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.” If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those

Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night painting

Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night painting
Frank Dicksee La Belle Dame Sans Merci painting
On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war–—seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These salves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this

Pablo Picasso The Old Guitarist painting

Pablo Picasso The Old Guitarist painting
Pablo Picasso Girl Before a Mirror painting
The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian island has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost. In addition, American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu. Yesterday, the Japanese government also launched an attack against Malaya.Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong.Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam.Last night, Japanese forces attacked the Philippine islands.Last night, the Japanese attacked Week island.And this morning, the Japanese attacked Midway island. Japan has therefore undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area. The facts of yesterday and today speak for themselves. The people of the United States has already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation.

Edward Hopper Sunday painting

Edward Hopper Sunday painting
Edward Hopper Morning Sun painting
When it doesn’t fit, the dream seems weird, he said. When the cross-reference is a good one, the brain can reinforce the memory.One way to test this is to look at people who are missing one of those vital memory steps — people with amnesia.
Kate Winslet has given birth to a baby girl, Britain's Daily Mail reported on Saturday. Winslet and her husband, Jim Threapleton, are seen arriving at the Odeon Leicester Square for the Orange British Film Awards in London, April 9.
Actress Kate Winslet, star of the international blockbuster Titanic, has named her new baby girl Mia.The 25-year-old star, married to film worker Jim Threapleton, 26, gave birth in London last Thursday.

Andrew Atroshenko What a Wonderful Life painting

Andrew Atroshenko What a Wonderful Life painting
Andrew Atroshenko Just for Love painting
the southeast are predicted to be soggier than in previous winters, as is California, thanks to a tropical jet stream. Finally, areas in the West and Southwest, except California and Nevada, are likely to be warmer than usual while the Northwest is likely to experience heavy rain — as usual.If that forecast sounds like a mixed bag, that’s just the point, says Baker.“We’ve had a lot of experience with neutral winters and we know you get close to average temperatures, but you also get a lot of swings from the polar jet stream dipping down over the United States,” he says. “So we expect extremes.” A “neutral” winter is one where neither an El Nino nor a La Nina are at play. An El Nino, such as the one that wrought floods, hurricanes and tornadoes around

Francois Boucher Madame de Pompadour painting

Francois Boucher Madame de Pompadour painting
Francois Boucher Adoration of the Shepherds painting
What qualifies as “normal” winter weather? In the Northeast, skiers have reason to be happy since it could mean a greater chance of snow and cooler temperatures that dip an average of 4 degrees below the averages of the previous three winters. In the Plains states and the Midwest, cold air outbreaks could lead to more bone-chilling days below zero. Famously cold cities could feel even colder. The forecasters predict people in Chicago will experience average temperatures 6 degrees colder than the past few winters, and those in Minneapolis will need to bundle up against temperatures 7 degrees below the previous three years’ averages. Florida is expected to be slightly warmer than recent winters, but it might also be punctuated by cold air outbreaks, known as “Florida Freezes.” Other states

Johannes Vermeer girl with the pearl earring painting

Johannes Vermeer girl with the pearl earring painting
Gustav Klimt The Three Ages of Woman painting

Flames race through a roadside canyon today in Alpine, Calif., Flames driven by 65mph gusts in water-starved brush torched luxury homes and forced the evacuation of part of the town, an Indian reservation and a casino.
ALPINE, Calif. Jan. 4 — A major wildfire is burning out of control near San Diego, destroying homes and forcing evacuations.Firefighters battled through the night to contain the 5,500-acre blaze, but little progress was reported. Driven by winds of up to 50 mph, the fast-moving fire destroyed four luxury homes and caused hundreds of evacuations in Alpine, located in eastern San Diego County. The fire was about 10 percent contained as of midnight ET. "The fire is not contained; it is not controlled," said Alpine Fire Chief Thomas Ace. "These are absolutely the worst fire conditions imaginable."

Gustav Klimt The Kiss painting

Gustav Klimt The Kiss painting
Gustav Klimt Sea Serpents painting
They'll do more if they need to ensure that the economy doesn't go into a tailspin," said Dana Johnson, senior managing director and head of research at Banc One Capital Markets Inc. in Chicago. "They're absolutely committed to doing everything they know how to do to prevent a hard landing."The Fed's willingness to cut rates fast is a sharp reversal from its campaign of aggressive rate rises between June 1999 and May last year, when it raised short-term credit costs six times to keep a lid on prices as the economy soared. The Fed's emergency move came as Bush was meeting with more than 30 business executives and chief executives about the state of the economy in a hotel in Austin, Texas. "I am pleased the Fed has cut the interest rates. I think the cut was needed," Bush told reporters. "It was a strong statement that measures must be taken to make sure our economy does not go into a tailspin."

Vincent van Gogh Self Portrait painting

Vincent van Gogh Self Portrait painting
Vincent van Gogh Sunflowers painting
These actions were taken in light of further weakening of sales and production, and in the context of lower consumer confidence, tight conditions in some segments of financial markets, and high energy prices sapping household and business purchasing power," the central bank said in a statement. "Moreover, inflation pressures remain contained. Nonetheless, to date there is little evidence to suggest that longer-term advances in technology and associated gains in productivity are abating," it added. But the Fed said that even with Wednesday's moves, it still saw the risks in the economy as weighted toward economic weakness -- clearly signaling that more rate cuts may come soon, possibly at the FOMC meeting scheduled for Jan. 30-31. "They'll do more if they need to ensure that the economy doesn't go into a

Guillaume Seignac L'Abandon painting

Guillaume Seignac L'Abandon painting
Claude Monet Woman In A Green Dress painting
Rep. Dennis Hastert of Illinois, re-elected as House speaker, told colleagues, "It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it."Rep. James Traficant, an Ohio Democrat who has praised Hastert as "a man of the people," crossed party lines to vote for him as speaker. Consequently, House Democratic leaders said they would not give Traficant a committee assignment and he no longer was welcome in the House Democratic Caucus. A spokesman for Traficant said he had no plans of becoming a Republican, but may declare himself an independent.

Avtandil paintings

Avtandil paintings
Andy Warhol Banana

Indian National Congress party demonstrators beat their chests in protest near the parliament in New Delhi, India. Angry opposition lawmakers called the prime minister a thief and shut down the Parliament on Wednesday as they demanded the government resign over a bribery scandal that was revealed by journalists with hidden cameras.
NEW DELHI - In 1987 an arms bribery scandal erupted in India, leading to the defeat two years later of the Congress government led by Rajiv Gandhi. Now, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) headed by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee faces a similar crisis. Late on Tuesday, Bangaru Laxman, president of the BJP, resigned after a local Internet site, Tehelka.com, showed video tapes in which he is seen purportedly accepting money to help two journalists claiming to represent a London-based arms manufacturing company, West End International.

beach painting

beach painting
Boat painting

Bob Dylan won his first Oscar on Sunday, March 26 for "a song that doesn't pussyfoot around or turn a blind eye to human nature," the folk legend said in his gracious acceptance speech.
"Things Have Changed," which Dylan wrote for Curtis Hanson's quirky Wonder Boys, won Best Song at the Academy Awards, beating out a diverse group of nominees that included Bj?rk, Sting, and Randy Newman, who lost for the 14th time.Dylan, 59, performed the song live for the Oscar telecast via satellite from Sydney, and was awarded the trophy minutes later."Oh good God, this is amazing," Dylan said. "I'd like to thank the members of the Academy who were bold enough to give me this award for this song."Following Dylan's acceptance speech, host Steve Martin poked fun at the

Allan R.Banks paintings

Allan R.Banks paintings
Andrea Mantegna paintings
The Guardian devotes space to what has been dubbed the "Baby Bond." Prime Minister Tony Blair today is to announce several policies to help combat child poverty. In one of the proposals, each child would be given a trust fund of up to $750 that could grow to up to $10,000 by the time the child reaches 18.The amount a child is given will depend on the income bracket of his or her family. But Is Tea Enough? The Brits now have a scientific rationalization for their favorite national pastime, as if one was needed. The Times explains "why a cuppa makes the British who they are." It seems scientists have found tea is a valuable bedrock in the British diet because it protects against damage to DNA, the molecules that comprise each person's genetic blueprint. So, The Times reasons, afternoon tea is really part of the hereditary makeup of the Brits.

Arthur Hughes paintings

Arthur Hughes paintings
Albert Bierstadt paintings

Britain has an unofficial mascot today after the prime minister's office commuted the death sentence of Phoenix, a white calf.
Phoenix was found alive and healthy among the bodies of several cows that had been slaughtered because they lived near a farm where the livestock was infected with foot-and-mouth disease. The tiny calf survived four days under a mound of carcasses.Her owner feared that the government's tight restrictions would mean a certain death for the calf, which quickly became a darling of the press and the public. Today's papers speculate that Phoenix's reprieve may be a sign that the British government is relaxing the slaughter policies it enacted to keep the disease under control. Her sweet face graces the front page of The Mirror, which declared she "is a symbol of hope for everyone who has suffered in this crisis."

Andreas Achenbach paintings

Andreas Achenbach paintings
Alphonse Maria Mucha paintings
Alan Feduccia, a paleontologist at the University of North Carolina, is one a few paleontologists who reject the bird-from-dino theory."A lot of things look like feathers," he says. "Where ever birds came from, it's much earlier [than the new fossil]. There's this timing problem." Norell counters it isn't useful to think of evolution as a linear process. "When you're looking at these animals, you're really looking at a family tree," he says. Because dromaeosaurs are more primitive than birds, Norell believes the new fossil shows that feathers developed before flight, perhaps along with warm-bloodedness. Scientists says they won't know if the fossilized creature represents a new species until they see three-dimensional CAT scans of its bones. It will be on display through the summer at the Museum of Natural History in New York.

Fabian Perez white and red painting

Fabian Perez white and red painting
Jacques-Louis David Napoleon at the St. Bernard Pass painting
For example, a small McDonald's french fries contains 210 calories and 10 grams of fat, but "super-sizing" it nearly triples that calorie count to 610 calories and 29 grams of fat. But there are some good choices. The grilled chicken, Chicken McGrill is great without mayonnaise, (340 calories and 7 grams of fat), and the grilled chicken salad with reduced-calorie dressing is also a good choice, Listfield said. Another healthy pick: Fruit 'N Yogurt parfait. Pay Attention to PortionsAt Burger King, there are a variety of choices for lunch or dinner, and the calorie contents vary too. Listfield suggests going for the Whopper Jr., at 350 calories and 16 grams of fat, rather than the BK Big Fish sandwich, which contains double that count: 710 calories and 38 grams of fat. The most important issue is portions, Listfield said. Four chicken tenders contain 170 calories and nine grams of fat. But a Double Whopper weighs

Albert Bierstadt Autumn Woods painting

Albert Bierstadt Autumn Woods painting
Alexandre Cabanel The Birth of Venus painting
Virginia Slims campaign also triggered the biggest growth in tobacco advertising aimed at women. At the same time, fears about the dangers of smoking were starting to emerge, leading some women to quit the habit. In response, the industry started marketing new low tar and light cigarettes — and women bought them in record numbers. But in fact, smoking related deaths among women were on the rise and would continue to grow, according to figures from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. "I think they should feel that they've been psychologically exploited," says Stan Glantz, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. "That is, there's been careful research to understand what will entice them into smoking. And then the ad's carefully crafted to appeal to those…hot buttons."Tobacco companies continue to run advertisements aimed at women, focusing especially on international markets where rates of women smokers are much lower than they are in Western nations. Advertisements overseas continue

Guillaume Seignac The Wave painting

Guillaume Seignac The Wave painting
Steve Hanks Interior View I painting
recent study found that only 2 percent to 5 percent of attempts to clone animals actually succeed, and that the animals who are born often develop serious health problems. Many appear normal, but harbor genes that don't express themselves properly. While it's unclear what kind of effect that may have on the animals, or on the people who eat their products, some cloned animals, including Dolly the cloned sheep, have shown strange symptoms like becoming abnormally obese.Infigen claims their patented cloning technique is different. They boast a 17 percent success rate and say their cows that actually come to term are born are healthy. Bishop refuses to say what's different about his company's process that allows such a high percentage of successful, healthy births, as well as healthy adult cows. He only answers that he doesn't know why everyone else has problems, he just knows Infigen doesn't.But for the milk, there is still the initial public relations war to win. Bishop says he's not too worried about the FDA, it's the milk-drinking, ice-cream-eating

Guillaume Seignac L'Abandon painting

Guillaume Seignac L'Abandon painting
Claude Monet Woman In A Green Dress painting
Infigen has commissioned two studies of its own, each to see if there are, in fact, no differences between its cloned milk and milk from "regular" cows. "We owe it to our consumers to show these products are normal," said Bishop. "Let them see for themselves that there is nothing to fear." Too Little KnownGroups that monitor genetically engineered foods say they are also concerned about cloned animal products, only because we know so little about their safety. "We don't know what the genetic ramifications would be and how it would play out with products from the animals," said Joe Mendelson, legal director for the Washington-based Center for Food Safety.Mendelson said the lack of regulation is troublesome. "This is definitely a loophole that we need to get a hold of."

John William Godward Nu Sur La Plage painting

John William Godward Nu Sur La Plage painting
Gustav Klimt The Kiss (Le Baiser _ Il Baccio) painting
date there is nothing to stop him. The Food and Drug Administration has asked biotech companies to voluntarily refrain from selling animal products derived from clones, but there are no laws in place. The FDA is waiting for the National Academy of Sciences to complete a review of the safety of cloned animal products. The report is expected sometime in January. Hoping For Public TrustInfigen has agreed to wait until the federal report comes out before marketing its milk, but it's mostly a public relations move. Bishop has learned from the widespread public mistrust of genetically engineered foods.Cloned animals are not considered genetically engineered (their DNA has not been modified in any way, simply copied), and Infigen wants to make sure the public understands the distinction. "We have to be diligent in getting in front of consumer groups. We need to put together the data, go out and tell them about this."

Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper painting

Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper painting
Gustav Klimt Klimt Sappho painting

It seems like science fiction, but it's already a reality: milk from cloned cows, and it's coming to a grocery store near you unless the federal government decides to intervene.
An experimental dairy farm in Wisconsin is producing some of the world's first milk from a herd of 21 cloned cows, 17 of them from the same original animal, all genetically identical.Infigen, the biotech company that runs the farm, says its cows are normal and healthy, the milk looks and tastes just like any other. The lack of any completed scientific study on the milk's safety doesn't stop Infigen's president, Michael Bishop, from pouring himself a glass. "It's delicious," he said.Bishop is not concerned about what might be wrong with the milk. He thinks it's perfectly normal and would like to start selling it as soon as he can. "Scientifically, I have no basis to believe otherwise," Bishop said. "I don't like pouring all this milk down the drain."

Yvonne Jeanette Karlsen paintings

Yvonne Jeanette Karlsen paintings
Avtandil paintings
Smulders of Gartner Dataquest in California. "XP has nice features, and it's a more stable system, but the product isn't the compelling product Windows 95 was."Ubiquitous in the Long RunMicrosoft's operating systems run on more than 90 percent of the world's personal computers, and even if XP falls short of the company's highest expectations for its initial release, the product still figures to become highly successful."Every new machine that goes out the door will have XP on it," notes Card, who expects the system to become ubiquitous "by attrition."And the system has generated controversy, too. The new Microsoft "Passport" which allows users to have one password for all Internet services has generated Web-privacy concerns, while the inclusion of so many applications raises the spectre of the "bundling" issue still being sorted out in the government's

Wassily Kandinsky paintings

Wassily Kandinsky paintings
William Etty paintings
It is also based on the Windows 2000 source code, which keeps the system running even when one application crashes, removing a major complaint users have about Microsoft's products.But a lot has changed in the six years since Microsoft rolled out Windows 95. Computer sales have hit a historic trough, the economy is floundering and the United States is under assault from terrorists.And if that weren't enough, there remains one huge difference between 1995 and 2001: six years ago the commercial Internet, still in its early years, gave consumers a huge incentive to upgrade to a Web-ready operating system. But now, there is no corresponding "killer application" to boost sales."It's a Windows 95 rollout in everything but the product," says analyst Charles

Theodore Chasseriau paintings

Theodore Chasseriau paintings
Ted Seth Jacobs paintings
Step FourBegin carving the design by using your X-acto knife. Be sure to stay within the lines. When the design is cut out, you can pop out the insides. To give the design more definition, you might want to clean up the pumpkin's edges with your X-acto knife.Step FiveTo make the pumpkin last, keep it in a cool location and rub the cut edges with a bit of petroleum jelly.
Despite laws designed to keep cigarettes away from kids, 34 percent of U.S. high school students and 15 percent of middle school students use tobacco products, government health officials say.
Those figures mean more than 3 million kids between the ages of 12 and 17 are lighting up, according to the national survey by the Centers for Disease Control's Office of Smoking and Health.The survey, which included students from 29 states, posed a number of questions to teenagers about tobacco marketing, secondhand smoke and underage purchasing, as well as general use of all types of tobacco products

Hunting paintings

Hunting paintings
impressionist painting

poster for the new documentary film 'Fahrenheit 9/11' which opens June 25, 2004 in the United States is pictured in this undated publicity photograph. It's a photomontage of filmmaker Michael Moore and...
The poster for the new documentary film 'Fahrenheit 9/11' which opens June 25, 2004 in the United States is pictured in this undated publicity photograph. It’s a photomontage of filmmaker Michael Moore and U.S. President George W. Bush."Fahrenheit 9/11," which won the top honor at last month's Cannes Film Festival, depicts the White House as asleep at the wheel before the Sept. 11 attacks. Moore accuses Bush of fanning fears of future terrorism to win public support for the Iraq war. 一部最新的记录影片《华氏911》将于2004年6月25日在美国上映。如上向大众公开的照片拍摄的看上去真像是这部著名影片的海报，但这张照片没有标明日期。此照片是导演迈克尔

Floral paintings

Floral paintings
Garden painting

An ungracefully looking rocket plane punched through the Earth's atmosphere and then glided home to a desert landing Monday. SpaceShipOne touched down to cheers and applause ...
An ungracefully looking rocket plane punched through the Earth's atmosphere and then glided home to a desert landing Monday. SpaceShipOne touched down in the Mojave Desert at 8:15 a.m. to cheers and applause.Pilot Mike Melvill took SpaceShipOne 62.2 miles above Earth, just a little more than 400 feet above the distance considered to be the boundary of space. The flight lasted just 90 minutes. Melvill, 63, said seeing the curvature of the Earth was "almost a religious experience." "It was really an awesome sight," he said. "It was like nothing I'd ever seen before, and it blew me away."

Dancer painting

Dancer painting
field painting
The flight is an important step toward winning the Ansari X Prize, a $10 million award for the first privately financed three-seat spacecraft to reach an altitude of 62 miles and repeat the feat within two weeks. Promoters hope that Monday's milestone and others will lead to a future where tourists will pay perhaps $20,000 to $100,000 for the opportunity to soar above the Earth's atmosphere, float in zero gravity and take in the sights. "The door to space is finally open to the rest of us," said George Whitesides, executive director of the National Space Society, which is wants to see space travel opened to people from all walks of life. He said the team members "have proven that human spaceflight is no longer the realm of governments alone." The SpaceShipOne project was funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who said the project cost more than $20 million. "I had my heart in my throat when I watched the launch," Allen said.

John William Waterhouse The Lady of Shalott painting

John William Waterhouse The Lady of Shalott painting
Claude Monet Water Lily Pond painting

She is now going public in the most dramatic form. She erected a giant billboard at a major Sydney intersection appealing for love. Do you think the way of searching for love is acceptable? ...
Helen Zou, a 40-year-old Chinese-Australian woman, who is now a Sydney civil engineer, went public in the most dramatic form. She erected a giant billboard at a major Sydney intersection appealing for love. Zhou never thought her behavior is strange. "It's Australia. There's a lot of freedom here. If you can put up a sign advertising Coca Cola, why not write one about a husband?" she told Sydney's Daily Telegraph. Under Zou's contract with the Australian Posters company, her billboard will stay up for another month -- or until her ideal man arrives.

Guillaume Seignac Psyche painting

Mark Rothko Blue Green and Brown 1951 painting
Guillaume Seignac Psyche painting

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat remains hospitalized in a French military hospital in a critical but stable condition, doctors said. Candles are displayed around a portrait of Arafat ...
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat remains hospitalized in a French military hospital in a critical but stable condition, doctors said. Candles are displayed around a portrait of Arafat outside the hospital. Arafat, symbol for decades of the Palestinian struggle for a state and against Israeli occupation, was suffering from liver failure and his health was not improving.Addressing the delicate issue of where Arafat should be buried if he dies, Israel said it had completed preparations for his eventual burial in the Gaza Strip. Arafat wants to be buried in Jerusalem's Old City, which is holy to Muslims, Jews and Christians. But Israel refuses to let Arafat lie in land it annexed and calls part of its indivisible capital.

Douglas Hofmann Model painting

Douglas Hofmann Model painting
Claude Monet La Japonaise painting

Egypt prepared for a strictly controlled military funeral for the great leader of Palestine, where dignitaries from around the world will pay their respects...
The coffin of Yasser Arafat, who died at the age of 75, flown from a Paris military base, arrived in Cairo. Egypt prepared for a strictly controlled military funeral for the great leader of Palestine, where dignitaries from around the world will pay their respects.After the funeral, Arafat's coffin will be flown to Ramallah in the West Bank. Arafat will be buried there.
This wonderful Disney feature, is regarded as Pixar's most successful opening ever, surpassing even the studio's smash hit-fish tale Finding Nemo in May 2003...
This wonderful Disney feature, about a family of superheroes trying to live a quiet life in the suburbs, is a classic that also feels modern.Computer animated movie superheroes "The Incredibles" have topped North American box office charts over the last weekend, raking in $70.7 million in ticket sales.The animated fantasy registered as Pixar's most successful opening ever, surpassing even the studio's smash hit-fish tale Finding Nemo in May 2003.

Hessam Abrishami paintings

Hessam Abrishami paintings
Howard Behrens paintings
hankering to live here.SCARLETT: Get off this place, you dirty Yankee!WILKENSON: You bum-trucking, high-flying Irish will find out who's running things around here when you get sold out for taxes. I'll buy this place, lock, stock and barrel and I'll live in it. But I'll wait for the ^sheriff's sale.SCARLETT: That's all ofTara you'll ever get.(Scarlett throws the ball to Wilkenson's face. of soil which Ashyley put in her hand.)WILKENSON: You'll be sorry for that. We'll be back!(Mr. O'Hara mounts his horse. In a fame of anger, he tries to cut the way and catch the Wilkensons.)Mr. O'HARA: I saw you holding on to the carriage!SCARLETT: Paw, come back!Mr.O'HARA: Yankee coward!SCARLETT: Paw!(Mr. O'Hara falls down to the ground. He never rises again.Days after...)SCARLETT: Oh, Mammie, Mammie.MAMMIE: You've been brave so long, Miss Scarlett. You just got to go on being brave. Think about your Paw, like he used to be.

Henri Fantin-Latour paintings

Henri Fantin-Latour paintings
Horace Vernet paintings
Chapter 8 Raising of the Tax(Wilkenson, Mr. O'Hara's ex-overseer, comes to Tara with his newly-married wife. They intend to buy Tara, for they know the "turbulence Tara now is in.) SCARLETT: Why, Emmy Sladdly EMMY SLADDLY: Yes'm, it's me. SCARLETT: Stop!WILKENSON: You haven't forgotten your old overseer, have you? Huh? Well, Emmy is Mrs. Wilkenson now... SCARLETT: Get off those steps, you trashy wench. Get off this land!WILKENSON: You can't speak that way to my wife. SCARLETT: Why? High time you made her your wife. Who baptized your other brats after you killed my mother? WILKENSON: We came out here to pay a call. A friendly call, and talk a little business with old friends. SCARLETT: Friends. When were we ever friends with the likes of you?WILKENSON: Still high and mighty ain't you? Well, I know all about you. I know your father's turned idiot. You can't pay your taxes. And I come out to offer to buy the place from you. To make you a right

Guercino paintings

Guercino paintings
Henry Peeters paintings
SCARLETT: I can't think about Paw. I can't think of anything but that three hundred dollars.MAMMIE: Ain't no good thinking about that. Miss Scarlett. Ain't nobody got that much money. Nobody but that Yankee's and the scallow-wags got that much moneynow.SCARLETT: Rhett!MAMMIE: Who that? A Yankee?SCARLETT: Oh, Mammie, I'm so thin and pale and...I haven't any clothes. Go up to the attic Mammie, and get down Ma's old box of dress patterns.MAMMIE: What are you up to in Miss Ellen's fortier?SCARLETT: You're going to make me a new dress!MAMMIE: Not with Miss Ellen's fortier, not while I got breath in my body!SCARLETT: Great balls of fire, they're my fortiers now. I'm going to Atlanta for that three hundred dollars, and I've got to go looking like a queen.MAMMIE: Who's going to Atlanta with you?SCARLETT: I'm going alone.MAMMIE: That's what you think. I'm going to Atlanta with you, with you and that new dress.SCARLETT: Now Mammie darling...

Franz Marc paintings

Franz Marc paintings
Fabian Perez paintings
RVANT: Who's going to milk that cow, Miss Scarlett?We's house workers.(Exhausted and hungry as Scarlett is, she goes out to theopen field, digging out the ftover radishes in the ground,swallowing. )SCARLETT: As God as my witness....as God as my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through thisand when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, norany of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill, as Godas my witness, I'll never be hungry again.SCARLETT: I'm starving, Paul. Get me something to eat. MAMMIE: There ain't nothing to eat honey. They took it all.SCARLETT: All thouse, is it there? I can't seethe house, have they burned it? It's all right, it's all right,they haven't burned it. It's still there!(Tara had survived, to face the hell and famine of defeat.)SCARLETT: Mother! Mother, I'm home! Mother, I'm home! Mother let me in, it's me, Scarlett. Oh, Paw, I'm homehe chickens, everything?

Fra Angelico paintings

Fra Angelico paintings
Frederic Edwin Church paintings
MAMMIE: Don't you worry your pretty head about Miss Melanie, child. I done slapped her in bed already along with the baby.SCARLETT: You better put that cow I brought into the barn, Paul.SERVANT: There ain't no barn. MAMMIE: Don't you worry your pretty head about Miss Melanie,child. I done slapped her in bed already along with the baby.SCARLETT: You better put that cow I brought into the barn, Paul.SERVANT: There ain't no barn no more, Miss Scarlett. The Yankees done burned it to firewood. MAMMIE: They used the house for their headquarters Miss Scarlett.SERVANT: They camped all around the place. SCARLETT: Yankees in Tara?MAMMIE: Yes,I'm. And they stole almost everything they didn't burn. All the clothes, and all the rugs, and even Miss Ellen's rosaries.SCARLETT: I'm starving, Paul. Get me something to eat. MAMMIE: There ain't nothing to eat honey. They took it all.SCARLETT: All the chickens, everything? SERVANT: They took them the first day. And what they didn't eat they carried off across their saddles.

Johannes Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring painting

Johannes Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring painting
Howard Behrens Bellagio Promenade painting

'How do you know that?' I asked.
"'Know it? why, what is "Suliman" but a corruption of Solomon? and, besides, an old Isanusi (witch doctor) up in the Manica country told me all about it. She said that the people who lived across those mountains were a branch of the Zulus, speaking a dialect of Zulu, but finer and bigger men even; that there lived among them great wizards, who had learned their art from white men when "all the world was dark," and who had the secret of a wonderful mine of "bright stones."'
"Well, I laughed at this story at the time, though it interested me, for the diamond fields were not discovered then, and poor Evans went off and got killed, and for twenty years I never thought any more of the matter. But just twenty years afterwards - and that is a long time, gentlemen; an elephant-hunter does not often live for twenty years at his business - I heard something more definite about Suliman's Mountains and the country which lies beyond them. I was up beyond the Manica country at a place called Sitanda's Kraal, and a miserable place it was, for one could get nothing to eat there, and there was but little game about. I had an attack of fever, and was in a bad way generally, when one day a Portugee arrived with

Guillaume Seignac The Awakening of Psyche painting

Guillaume Seignac The Awakening of Psyche painting
Eric Wallis Roman Girl painting
always think it must have been fairer when Eve was walking about it. But we had miscalculated a little, and the sun was well down before we dropped anchor off the Point, and heard the gun which told the good folk that the English mail was in. It was too late to think of getting over the bar that night, so we went down comfortably to dinner, after seeing the mail carried off in the lifeboat.
When we came up again the moon was up, and shining so brightly over sea and shore that she almost paled the quick, large flashes from the lighthouse. From the shore floated sweet spicy odors that always remind me of hymns and missionaries, and in the windows of the houses on the Berea sparkle a hundred lights. From a large brig lying near came the music of the sailors as they worked at getting the anchor up to be ready for the wind. Altogether it was a perfect night, such a night as you only get in southern Africa, and it threw a garment of peace over everybody as the moon threw a garment of silver over everything. Even the great bulldog, belonging to a sporting passenger, seemed to yield to the gentle influences, and, giving up yearning to come to close quarters with the baboon in a cage on the fo'k'sle, snored happily in the door of the cabin, dreaming, no doubt, that he had finished him, and happy in his dream.
We all - that is, Sir Henry Curtis, Captain Good, and myself - went and sat by the

Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper painting

Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper painting
Gustav Klimt Klimt Sappho painting
About a fortnight's march from Inyati we came across a peculiarly beautiful bit of fairly-watered wooded country: The kloofs in the hills were covered with dense bush, "idoro" bush as the natives call it, and in some places with the "wacht-een-beche" (wait-a-little) thorn, and there were great quantities of the beautiful "machabell" tree, laden with refreshing yellow fruit with enormous stones. This tree is the elephant's favorite food, and there were not wanting signs that the great brutes were about, for not only was their spoor frequent, but in many places the trees were broken down and even uprooted. The elephant is a destructive feeder.
One evening, after a long day's march, we came to a spot of peculiar loveliness. At the foot of a bush- clad hill was a dry river-bed, in which, however, were to be found pools of crystal water all trodden round with the hoof-prints of game. Facing this hill was a park like plain, where grew clumps of flat-topped mimosa, varied with occasional glossy leaved machabells, and all round was the great sea of pathless, silent bush.
As we emerged into this river-bed path we suddenly started a troop of tall giraffes, who galloped, or, rather, sailed off, with their strange gait, their tails screwed up over their backs, and their hoofs rattling like castanets. They were about three hundred yards

Alfred Gockel paintings

Alfred Gockel paintings
Alexei Alexeivich Harlamoff paintings
She says she will stay with George Moore until he can leave the hospital. She has written to his people in Nova Scotia. It seems that George's only near relative is a married sister much older than himself. She was living when George sailed on the Four Sisters, but of course we do not know what may have happened since. Did you ever see George Moore, Miss Cornelia?"
"I did. It is all coming back to me. He was here visiting his Uncle Abner eighteen years ago, when he and Dick would be about seventeen. They were double cousins, you see. Their fathers were brothers and their mothers were twin sisters, and they did look a terrible lot alike. Of course," added Miss Cornelia scornfully, "it wasn't one of those freak resemblances you read of in novels where two people are so much alike that they can fill each other's places and their nearest and dearest can't tell between them. In those days you could tell easy enough which was George and which was Dick, if you saw them together and near at hand. Apart, or some distance away, it wasn't so easy. They played lots of tricks on people and thought it great fun, the two scamps. George

Avtandil paintings

Avtandil paintings
Andy Warhol Neuschwanstein
. Cornelia Bryant was never so kerflummuxed before."
"There isn't a very great deal to tell. Leslie's letter was short. She didn't go into particulars. This man--George Moore--has recovered his memory and knows who he is. He says Dick took yellow fever in Cuba, and the Four Sisters had to sail without him. George stayed behind to nurse him. But he died very shortly afterwards.
George did not write Leslie because he intended to come right home and tell her himself."
"And why didn't he?"
"I suppose his accident must have intervened. Gilbert says it is quite likely that George Moore remembers nothing of his accident, or what led to it, and may never remember it. It probably happened very soon after Dick's death. We may find out more particulars when Leslie writes again."
"Does she say what she is going to do? When is she coming home?"

Aubrey Beardsley paintings

Aubrey Beardsley paintings
Andrea del Sarto paintings
And do you mean to tell me, Anne, dearie, that Dick Moore has turned out not to be Dick Moore at all but somebody else? Is that what you phoned up to me today?"
"Yes, Miss Cornelia. It is very amazing, isn't it?"
"It's--it's--just like a man," said Miss Cornelia helplessly. She took off her hat with trembling fingers. For once in her life Miss Cornelia was undeniably staggered.
"I can't seem to sense it, Anne," she said. "I've heard you say it--and I believe you--but I can't take it in. Dick Moore is dead-- has been dead all these years--and Leslie is free?"
"Yes. The truth has made her free. Gilbert was right when he said that verse was the grandest in the Bible."
"Tell me everything, Anne, dearie. Since I got your phone I've been

Albert Bierstadt California Coast painting

Albert Bierstadt California Coast painting
Pino Restfull painting
of Four Winds to their doom could be seen tonight sailing up the harbor with their drowned crews on their decks, if that shrouding fog could suddenly be drawn aside. I feel as if it concealed innumerable mysteries--as if I were surrounded by the wraiths of old generations of Four Winds people peering at me through that gray veil. If ever the dear dead ladies of this little house came back to revisit it they would come on just such a night as this. If I sit here any longer I'll see one of them there opposite me in Gilbert's chair. This place isn't exactly canny tonight. Even Gog and Magog have an air of pricking up their ears to hear the footsteps of unseen guests. I'll run over to see Leslie before I frighten myself with my own fancies, as I did long ago in the matter of the Haunted Wood. I'll leave my house of dreams to welcome back its old inhabitants. My fire will give them my good-will and greeting--they will be gone before I come back, and my house will be mine once more. Tonight I am sure it is keeping a tryst with the past."
Laughing a little over her fancy, yet with something of a creepy sensation in the region of her spine, Anne kissed her hand to Gog and Magog and slipped out into

Vladimir Volegov Yellow Roses painting

Vladimir Volegov Yellow Roses painting
Andrew Atroshenko Ballerina painting
Yes, red--to give warmth to that milk-white skin and those shining gray-green eyes of yours. Golden hair wouldn't suit you at all Queen Anne--my Queen Anne--queen of my heart and life and home."
"Then you may admire Leslie's all you like," said Anne magnanimouslyOne evening, a week later, Anne decided to run over the fields to the house up the brook for an informal call. It was an evening of gray fog that had crept in from the gulf, swathed the harbor, filled the glens and valleys, and clung heavily to the autumnal meadows. Through it the sea sobbed and shuddered. Anne saw Four Winds in a new aspect, and found it weird and mysterious and fascinating; but it also gave her a little feeling of loneliness. Gilbert was away and would be away until the morrow, attending a medical pow-wow in Charlottetown. Anne longed for an hour of fellowship with some girl friend. Captain Jim and Miss Cornelia were "good fellows" each, in their own way; but youth yearned to youth.
"If only Diana or Phil or Pris or Stella could drop in for a chat," she said to herself, "how delightful it would be! This is such a ghostly night. I'm sure all the ships that ever sailed

Albert Bierstadt On the Saco painting

Albert Bierstadt On the Saco painting
Andrew Atroshenko The Fan Dancer painting
Anne watched her until she was lost in the shadows of the chill and misty night. Then she turned slowly back to the glow of her own radiant hearthstone.
"Isn't she lovely, Gilbert? Her hair fascinates me. Miss Cornelia says it reaches to her feet. Ruby Gillis had beautiful hair--but Leslie's is alive--every thread of it is living gold."
"She is very beautiful," agreed Gilbert, so heartily that Anne almost wished he were a little less enthusiastic.
"Gilbert, would you like my hair better if it were like Leslie's?" she asked wistfully.
"I wouldn't have your hair any color but just what it is for the world," said Gilbert, with one or two convincing accompaniments.
You wouldn't be Anne if you had golden hair--or hair of any color but"--
"Red," said Anne, with gloomy satisfaction.

Leonardo da Vinci paintings

Leonardo da Vinci paintings
Lord Frederick Leighton paintings
was not because she had not had at least one chance of marriage. But Mrs. Harmon took swift revenge.
"Well, the over-particular girls generally get left, I notice. And what's this I hear about Gilbert Blythe being engaged to a Miss Stuart? Charlie Sloane tells me she is perfectly beautiful. Is it true?"
"I don't know if it is true that he is engaged to Miss Stuart," replied Anne, with Spartan composure, "but it is certainly true that she is very lovely."
"I once thought you and Gilbert would have made a match of it," said Mrs. Harmon. "If you don't take care, Anne, all of your beaux will slip through your fingers."
Anne decided not to continue her duel with Mrs. Harmon. You could not fence with an antagonist who met rapier thrust with blow of battle axe.
"Since Jane is away," she said, rising haughtily, "I don't think I can stay longer this morning. I'll come down when she comes home."

Lorenzo Lotto paintings

Lorenzo Lotto paintings
Louis Aston Knight paintings
Oh, I can't marry you -- I can't -- I can't," she cried, wildly.
Roy turned pale -- and also looked rather foolish. He had -- small blame to him -- felt very sure.
"What do you mean?" he stammered.
"I mean that I can't marry you," repeated Anne desperately. "I thought I could -- but I can't."
"Why can't you?" Roy asked more calmly.
"Because -- I don't care enough for you."
A crimson streak came into Roy's face.
"So you've just been amusing yourself these two years?" he said slowly.
"No, no, I haven't," gasped poor Anne. Oh, how could she explain? She COULDN'T explain. There are some things that cannot be explained. "I did think I cared -- truly I did -- but I know now I don't."

John Singer Sargent paintings

John Singer Sargent paintings
Jean-Leon Gerome paintings
You have ruined my life," said Roy bitterly.
"Forgive me," pleaded Anne miserably, with hot cheeks and stinging eyes.
Roy turned away and stood for a few minutes looking out seaward. When he came back to Anne, he was very pale again.
"You can give me no hope?" he said.
Anne shook her head mutely.
"Then -- good-bye," said Roy. "I can't understand it -- I can't believe you are not the woman I've believed you to be. But reproaches are idle between us. You are the only woman I can ever love. I thank you for your friendship, at least. Good-bye, Anne."
"Good-bye," faltered Anne. When Roy had gone she sat for a long time in the pavilion, watching a white mist creeping subtly and remorselessly landward up the harbor. It was her hour of humiliation and self-contempt and shame. Their waves went over her. And yet, underneath it all, was a queer sense of recovered freedom.

John William Godward paintings

John William Godward paintings
John William Waterhouse paintings
She slipped into Patty's Place in the dusk and escaped to her room. But Phil was there on the window seat.
"Wait," said Anne, flushing to anticipate the scene. "Wait til you hear what I have to say. Phil, Roy asked me to marry him-and I refused."
"You -- you REFUSED him?" said Phil blankly.
"Yes."
"Anne Shirley, are you in your senses?"
"I think so," said Anne wearily. "Oh, Phil, don't scold me. You don't understand."
"I certainly don't understand. You've encouraged Roy Gardner in every way for two years -- and now you tell me you've refused him. Then you've just been flirting scandalously with him. Anne, I couldn't have believed it of YOU."
"I WASN'T flirting with him -- I honestly thought I cared up to the last

Andrew Atroshenko The Fan Dancer painting

Andrew Atroshenko The Fan Dancer painting
Howard Behrens Rue de St. Paul painting
She had greeted Anne with gay cordiality after church, and urged her to come up the next evening.
"I'll be away Tuesday and Wednesday evenings," she had whispered triumphantly. "There's a concert at Carmody and a party at White Sands. Herb Spencer's going to take me. He's my LATEST. Be sure to come up tomorrow. I'm dying for a good talk with you. I want to hear all about your doings at Redmond."
Anne knew that Ruby meant that she wanted to tell Anne all about her own recent flirtations, but she promised to go, and Diana offered to go with her.
"I've been wanting to go to see Ruby for a long while," she told Anne, when they left Green Gables the next evening, "but I really couldn't go alone. It's so awful to hear Ruby rattling on as she does, and pretending there is nothing the matter with her, even when she can hardly speak for coughing. She's fighting so hard for her life, and yet she hasn't any chance at all, they say."
The girls walked silently down the red, twilit road. The robins were singing vespers in the

Edward Hopper Reclining Nude painting

Edward Hopper Reclining Nude painting
Lord Frederick Leighton Nude on the Beach painting
familiar face was missing forever. Old "Uncle Abe," his prophesying over and done with, Mrs. Peter Sloane, who had sighed, it was to be hoped, for the last time, Timothy Cotton, who, as Mrs. Rachel Lynde said "had actually managed to die at last after practicing at it for twenty years," and old Josiah Sloane, whom nobody knew in his coffin because he had his whiskers neatly trimmed, were all sleeping in the little graveyard behind the church. And Billy Andrews was married to Nettie Blewett! They "appeared out" that Sunday. When Billy, beaming with pride and happiness, showed his be-plumed and be-silked bride into the Harmon Andrews' pew, Anne dropped her lids to hide her dancing eyes. She recalled the stormy winter night of the Christmas holidays when Jane had proposed for Billy. He certainly had not broken his heart over his rejection. Anne wondered if Jane had also proposed to Nettie for him, or if he had mustered enough spunk to ask the fateful question himself. All the Andrews family seemed to share in his pride and pleasure, from Mrs

Albert Bierstadt Westphalian Landscape painting

Albert Bierstadt Westphalian Landscape painting
Albert Bierstadt California Coast painting
But we may as well speak plainly. I'm poor -- Pris is poor -- Stella Maynard is poor -- our housekeeping will have to be very simple and our table plain. You'd have to live as we would. Now, you are rich and your boardinghouse fare attests the fact."
"Oh, what do I care for that?" demanded Phil tragically. "Better a dinner of herbs where your chums are than a stalled ox in a lonely boardinghouse. Don't think I'm ALL stomach, girls. I'll be willing to live on bread and water -- with just a LEETLE jam -- if you'll let me come."
"And then," continued Anne, "there will be a good deal of work to be done. Stella's aunt can't do it all. We all expect to have our chores to do. Now, you -- "
"Toil not, neither do I spin," finished Philippa. "But I'll learn to do things. You'll only have

Rembrandt Rembrandt night watch painting

Rembrandt Rembrandt night watch painting
Michelangelo Buonarroti Creation of Adam hand painting
what to do. . .with it," said Anne dazedly. "But as for asking Mrs. Lynde to come here, that is for you to decide, Marilla. Do you think. . .are you sure. . .you would like it? Mrs. Lynde is a good woman and a kind neighbor, but. . .but. . ."
"But she's got her faults, you mean to say? Well, she has, of course; but I think I'd rather put up with far worse faults than see Rachel go away from Avonlea. I'd miss her terrible. She's the only close friend I've got here and I'd be lost without her. We've been neighbors for forty-five years and we've never had a quarrel. . .though we came rather near it that time you flew at Mrs. Rachel for calling you homely and redhaired. Do you remember, Anne?"
"I should think I do," said Anne ruefully. "People don't forget things like that. How I hated poor Mrs. Rachel at that moment!"
"And then that `apology' you made her. Well, you were a handful, in all conscience, Anne. I did feel so puzzled and bewildered how to manage you. Matthew understood you better."

Dante Gabriel Rossetti A Vision of Fiammetta painting

Dante Gabriel Rossetti A Vision of Fiammetta painting
Peter Paul Rubens The Crucified Christ painting
what to do. . .with it," said Anne dazedly. "But as for asking Mrs. Lynde to come here, that is for you to decide, Marilla. Do you think. . .are you sure. . .you would like it? Mrs. Lynde is a good woman and a kind neighbor, but. . .but. . ."
"But she's got her faults, you mean to say? Well, she has, of course; but I think I'd rather put up with far worse faults than see Rachel go away from Avonlea. I'd miss her terrible. She's the only close friend I've got here and I'd be lost without her. We've been neighbors for forty-five years and we've never had a quarrel. . .though we came rather near it that time you flew at Mrs. Rachel for calling you homely and redhaired. Do you remember, Anne?"
"I should think I do," said Anne ruefully. "People don't forget things like that. How I hated poor Mrs. Rachel at that moment!"
"And then that `apology' you made her. Well, you were a handful, in all conscience, Anne. I did feel so puzzled and bewildered how to manage you. Matthew understood you better."

John William Godward Under the Blossom that Hangs on the Bough painting

John William Godward Under the Blossom that Hangs on the Bough painting
John William Waterhouse waterhouse Saint Cecilia painting
"I won't be alone with them. That's what I meant to discuss with you. I had a long talk with Rachel tonight. Anne, she's feeling dreadful bad over a good many things. She's not left very well off. It seems they mortgaged the farm eight years ago to give the youngest boy a start when he went west; and they've never been able to pay much more than the interest since. And then of course Thomas' illness has cost a good deal, one way or another. The farm will have to be sold and Rachel thinks there'll be hardly anything left after the bills are settled. She says she'll have to go and live with Eliza and it's breaking her heart to think of leaving Avonlea. A woman of her age doesn't make new friends and interests easy. And, Anne, as she talked about it the thought came to me that I would ask her to come and live with me, but I thought I ought to talk it over with you first before I said anything to her. If I had Rachel living with me you could go to college. How do you feel about it?"
"I feel. . .as if. . .somebody. . .had handed me. . .the moon. . .and I

George Inness paintings

George Inness paintings
George Frederick Watts paintings
don't leave those peapods on the back stairs. . .someone might slip on them. I'll have a light soup to begin with. . .you know I can make lovely cream-of-onion soup. . .and then a couple of roast fowls. I'll have the two white roosters. I have real affection for those roosters and they've been pets ever since the gray hen hatched out just the two of them. . .little balls of yellow down. But I know they would have to be sacrificed sometime, and surely there couldn't be a worthier occasion than this. But oh, Marilla, I cannot kill them. . .not even for Mrs. Morgan's sake. I'll have to ask John Henry Carter to come over and do it for me."
"I'll do it," volunteered Davy, "if Marilla'll hold them by the legs" cause I guess it'd take both my hands to manage the axe. It's awful jolly fun to see them hopping about after their heads are cut off."
"Then I'll have peas and beans and creamed potatoes and a lettuce salad, for vegetables," resumed

Fra Angelico paintings

Fra Angelico paintings
Frederic Edwin Church paintings
Milty Boulter says that's where it is. It was last Sunday in Sunday School. The lesson was about Elijah and Elisha, and I up and asked Miss Rogerson where heaven was. Miss Rogerson looked awful offended. She was cross anyhow, because when she'd asked us what Elijah left Elisha when he went to heaven Milty Boulter said, `His old clo'es,' and us fellows all laughed before we thought. I wish you could think first and do things afterwards, 'cause then you wouldn't do them. But Milty didn't mean to be disrespeckful. He just couldn't think of the name of the thing. Miss Rogerson said heaven was where God was and I wasn't to ask questions like that. Milty nudged me and said in a whisper, `Heaven's in Uncle Simon's garret and I'll esplain about it on the road home.' So when we was coming home he esplained. Milty's a great hand at esplaining things. Even if he don't anything about a thing he'll make up a lot of stuff and so you get it esplained all the same. His mother is Mrs. Simon's sister and he went with her to the funeral when his cousin, Jane Ellen, died. The minister said she'd gone to heaven, though Milty says she was lying right before them in the coffin. But he s'posed they carried the coffin to the garret afterwards. Well, when Milty and

Frederic Remington paintings

Frederic Remington paintings
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Davy had been at last taught to say "please," but he generally tacked it on as an afterthought. He looked with approval at the generous slice Anne presently brought to him. "You always put such a nice lot of butter on it, Anne. Marilla spreads it pretty thin. It slips down a lot easier when there's plenty of butter."
The slice "slipped down" with tolerable ease, judging from its rapid disappearance. Davy slid head first off the sofa, turned a double somersault on the rug, and then sat up and announced decidedly,
"Anne, I've made up my mind about heaven. I don't want to go there."
"Why not?" asked Anne gravely.
"Cause heaven is in Simon Fletcher's garret, and I don't like Simon Fletcher."
"Heaven in. . .Simon Fletcher's garret!" gasped Anne, too amazed even to laugh. "Davy Keith, whatever put such an extraordinary idea into your head?"

Filippino Lippi paintings

Filippino Lippi paintings
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Anne," said Davy appealingly, scrambling up on the shiny, leather-covered sofa in the Green Gables kitchen, where Anne sat, reading a letter, "Anne, I'm awful hungry. You've no idea."
"I'll get you a piece of bread and butter in a minute," said Anne absently. Her letter evidently contained some exciting news, for her cheeks were as pink as the roses on the big bush outside, and her eyes were as starry as only Anne's eyes could be.
"But I ain't bread and butter hungry, " said Davy in a disgusted tone. "I'm plum cake hungry."
"Oh," laughed Anne, laying down her letter and putting her arm about Davy to give him a squeeze, that's a kind of hunger that can be endured very comfortably, Davy-boy. You know it's one of Marilla's rules that you can't have anything but bread and butter between meals."
"Well, gimme a piece then. . .please."

Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper painting

Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper painting
Gustav Klimt Klimt Sappho painting
Oh, it isn't in the least extraordinary that I should be getting myself and other people into scrapes," said Anne mournfully. "I'm noted for that. You might suppose I'd have grown out of it by this time. . .I'll be seventeen next March. . .but it seems that I haven't. Mr. Harrison, is it too much to hope that you'll forgive me? I'm afraid it's too late to get your cow back, but here is the money for her. . .or you can have mine in exchange if you'd rather. She's a very good cow. And I can't express how sorry I am for it all."
"Tut, tut," said Mr. Harrison briskly, "don't say another word about it, miss. It's of no consequence. . .no consequence whatever. Accidents will happen. I'm too hasty myself sometimes, miss. . . far too hasty. But I can't help speaking out just what I think and folks must take me as they find me. If that cow had been in my cabbages now. . .but never mind, she wasn't, so it's all right. I think I'd rather have your cow in exchange, since you want to be rid of her."
"Oh, thank you, Mr. Harrison. I'm so glad you are not vexed. I was afraid you would

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John William Godward Nu Sur La Plage painting
Gustav Klimt The Kiss (Le Baiser _ Il Baccio) painting
Redheaded snippet," quoted Ginger in a tone of profound contempt.
At this point Mr. Harrison arose and, with an expression that would have struck terror into any bird but a parrot, carried Ginger's cage into an adjoining room and shut the door. Ginger shrieked, swore, and otherwise conducted himself in keeping with his reputation, but finding himself left alone, relapsed into sulky silence.
"Excuse me and go on," said Mr. Harrison, sitting down again. "My brother the sailor never taught that bird any manners."
"I went home and after tea I went out to the milking pen. Mr. Harrison,". . .Anne leaned forward, clasping her hands with her old childish gesture, while her big gray eyes gazed imploringly into Mr. Harrison's embarrassed face. . ."I found my cow still shut up in the pen. It was your cow I had sold to Mr. Shearer."
"Bless my soul," exclaimed Mr. Harrison, in blank amazement at this unlooked-for conclusion. "What a

Guillaume Seignac L'Abandon painting

Guillaume Seignac L'Abandon painting
Claude Monet Woman In A Green Dress painting
"It's not the cabbages, Mr. Harrison. I'll tell you everything. . . that is what I came for -- but please don't interrupt me. It makes me so nervous. Just let me tell my story and don't say anything till I get through -- and then no doubt you'll say plenty," Anne concluded, but in thought only.
"I won't say another word," said Mr. Harrison, and he didn't. But Ginger was not bound by any contract of silence and kept ejaculating, "Redheaded snippet" at intervals until Anne felt quite wild.
"I shut my Jersey cow up in our pen yesterday. This morning I went to Carmody and when I came back I saw a Jersey cow in your oats. Diana and I chased her out and you can't imagine what a hard time we had. I was so dreadfully wet and tired and vexed -- and Mr. Shearer came by that very minute and offered to buy the cow. I sold her to him on the spot for twenty dollars. It was wrong of me. I should have waited and consulted Marilla, of course. But I'm dreadfully given to doing things without thinking -- everybody who knows me will tell you that. Mr. Shearer took the cow right away to ship her on the afternoon train."