Rene Magritte High Society painting

Rene Magritte High Society paintingRene Magritte Donna paintingArthur Hughes The King's Orchard painting
read family prayers every morning; on the outbreak of war he abruptly stopped the practice, explaining, when asked, that there was now nothing left to pray for. When Charles’s mother was killed there was a memorial service for her at Boughton, his village, but Charles’s father did not go with him and Aunt Philippa. “It was all her confounded patriotism,” he said, not to Charles but to Aunt Philippa, who did not repeat the remark until many years later. “She had no to go off to Serbia like that. Do you think it my duty to marry again?”
“No,” said Aunt Philippa.
“Nothing would induce me to—least of all my duty.”
The service followed its course. As often happened, two small boys fainted and were carried out by house-captains; a third left bleeding at the nose. Mr. Peacock sang the Gospel over-loudly. It was his first public appearance. Symonds looked up from his Greek, frowned and continued reading. Presently it was time for Communion; most of the boys who had