Alphonse Maria Mucha Moet and Chandon White Star painting

Alphonse Maria Mucha Moet and Chandon White Star paintingAlphonse Maria Mucha La Dame aux Camelias paintingAlphonse Maria Mucha JOB painting
complex that they still had not finished when Hermione joined them for their after-lunch free period (though she considerably speeded up the process). They had only just finished when the bell rang for the afternoon's double Potions and they beat the familiar path down to the dungeon classroom that had, for so long, been Snape's.
When they arrived in the corridor they saw that there were only a dozen people progressing to N.E.W.T. level. Crabbe and Goyle had evidently failed to achieve the required O.W.L. grade, but four Slytherins had made it through, including Malfoy. Four Ravenclaws were there, and one Hufflepuff, Ernie Macmillan, whom Harry liked despite his rather pompous manner.
"Harry," Ernie said portentously, holding out his hand as Harry approached, "didn't get a chance to speak in Defense Against The Dark Arts this morning. Good lesson, I thought, but Shield Charms

Thomas Kinkade New York 5th Avenue painting

Thomas Kinkade New York 5th Avenue paintingThomas Kinkade Mountains Declare his Glory paintingThomas Kinkade HOMETOWN MEMORIES painting
wizards can do this, of course; it is a question of concentration and mind power which some" - his gaze lingered maliciously upon Harry once more - "lack."
Harry knew Snape was thinking of their disastrous Occlumency lessons of the previous year. He refused to drop his gaze, but glowered at Snape until Snape looked away.
"You will now divide," Snape went on, "into pairs. One partner will attempt to jinx the other without speaking. The other will attempt to repel the jinx in equal silence. Carry on."
Although Snape did not know it, Harry had taught at least half the class (everyone who had been a member of the D.A.) how to perform a Shield Charm the previous year. None of them had ever cast the charm without speaking, however. A reasonable amount of cheating ensued; many people were merely

Gustave Courbet Plage de Normandie painting

Gustave Courbet Plage de Normandie painting
Thomas Kinkade HOMETOWN MORNING painting
We're one short," said Lupin.

　　　"Here," said Hagrid gruffly, and he lifted Mundungus by the scruff of the neck and dropped him down beside Fleur, who wrinkled her nose pointedly and moved along to stand between Fred and George instead.

"I'm a soldier, I'd sooner be a protector," said Mundungus.

　　　"Shut it," growled Moody. "As I've already told you, you spineless worm, any Death Eaters we run into will be aiming to capture Potter, not kill him. Dumbledore always said You-Know-Who would want to finish Potter in person. It'll be the protectors who have got the most to worry about, the Death Eaters'll want to kill them."

Gustav Klimt The Tree of Life painting

Gustav Klimt The Tree of Life painting
Gustav Klimt Expectation (gold foil) painting
On every side broomsticks were leaping into hands; Hermione had already been helped up onto a great black thestral by Kingsley, Fleur onto the other by Bill. Hagrid was standing ready beside the motorbike, goggles on.

"Is this it? Is this Sirius's bike?"

　　　"The very same," said Hagrid, beaming down at Harry. "An' the last time yeh was on it, Harry, I could fit yeh in one hand!"

　　　Harry could not help but feel a little humiliated as he got into the sidecar. It placed him several feet below everybody else: Ron smirked at the sight of him sitting there like a child in a bumper car. Harry stuffed his rucksack and broomstick down by his feet and rammed Hedwig's cage between his knees. He was extremely uncomfortable

Godward Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder painting

Godward Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder painting
John William Waterhouse Echo and Narcissus painting
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Michelangelo Buonarroti Creation of Adam painting

Michelangelo Buonarroti Creation of Adam painting
Thomas Kinkade The Rose Garden painting
Every day it becomes more clear that the Net is taking its place alongside the other great transformational technologies.""Certainly the Net is a powerful medium for communication. But even more important, it is a vocational medium -- a place where real work gets done, real competitive advantage is gained, and real growth is generated.That's because the Net has emerged as a powerful means for parties of every type to conduct transactions of every type: transactions among employees inside an enterprise; among trading partners in a supply chain; and networked transactions that transform the way educators teach students, physicians treat patients, and the way governments deliver services to citizens.This is what we call 'e-business'. It's a term we coined to describe all of the ways individuals and institutions will derive value from the Net... as well as our strategic direction in the emerging networked economy."Lou GerstnerChairman and Chief Executive Officer of IBM

Thomas Kinkade A Peaceful Retreat painting

Thomas Kinkade A Peaceful Retreat painting
John Collier Lady Godiva painting
Last Member of Camelot Waits AloneWhen Caroline Kennedy married Edwin Schlossberg, her brother served as best man and gave this toast: "All my life there has just been the three of us — Mommy, Caroline and I."Now, there is just Caroline.JFK Jr.'s only sister, Caroline, was on a white-water rafting trip out West with her family when the news arrived that her brother’s plane had gone missing. She quickly flew back East, though not to the Kennedy family compound in Massachussets. Caroline has chosen to wait for news of the search at her Long Island, N.Y., home with her husband and their three children — ages 12, 9 and 6.

William Bouguereau The Abduction of Psyche painting

William Bouguereau The Abduction of Psyche painting
William Bouguereau the first kiss painting
However, it was overshadowed when Compaq Chief Financial Officer Jesse Greene said in a conference call that the effect of the weak European currency would lop as much as $100 million from pretax profits in the fourth quarter. "People are going to have to adjust to the impact of currency in the fourth quarter," said Gerard Klauer Mattison analyst David Bailey. "But it still doesn't change the story that this was a solid third quarter." The Houston-based company reported third-quarter net income of $550 million, or 31 cents per share, including a net investment gain of $25 million, compared with $140 million, or 8 cents, in the third quarter a year ago. Excluding the investment gain, Compaq earned 30 cents per share, beating the Wall Street estimate of 29 cents, as reported by First Call/Thomson Financial, which compiles brokerage estimates.

Thomas Kinkade Stairway to Paradise painting

Thomas Kinkade Stairway to Paradise painting
Thomas Kinkade Spirit of Christmas painting
But malicious hackers don’t need to tamper with the source codes to use them to create destructive software, experts said. (The source code is the basic blueprint of a piece of software, allowing programmers to disassemble it and use its parts elsewhere.)Owners of current Microsoft products have nothing to worry about, but the break-in may make future products more vulnerable to attacks. “The hacker appears to have obtained some source code for the development of future products,” Microsoft spokesman Rick Miller said. The circumstances of the break-in are, right now, mysterious. Microsoft is working with the FBI to track down the culprits and said none of their currently on-the-market software has been corrupted.

Godward Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder painting

Godward Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder painting
John William Waterhouse Echo and Narcissus painting

Electronic picture frames let you look at your digital images in a whole new way. You can choose which pictures you'd like to look at, in what order, for how long.
Dec. 6 — Images are going high-tech everywhere you look, and bit by bit, picture frames have been getting in on the act.Whether you snap black-and-white photographs with your 35 mm or zap pictures with your digital camera, electronic picture frames offer a high-tech way to showcase your images. Copping a traditional design, these devices let you display more than an album's worth of pictures one frame at a time. As long as you have access to a scanner or a digital camera, you can mount your photos in one of these frames and create a virtual slide show of the images you

Edgar Degas Star of the Ballet painting

Edgar Degas Star of the Ballet painting
Johannes Vermeer Girl with a Red Hat painting
prosecutor, visibly shaken after emerging from the scene, told reporters, "The Wakefield police were able to subdue Mr. McDermott, wrestle him to the ground. Place him in custody. Mr. McDermott has been placed under arrest."The prosecutor, John McEvoy, said McDermott faced seven counts of murder."All the victims died from gunshots," he said. "There were no other victims. There were no other shooters."Martha Coakley, the Middlesex County district attorney told reporters, "There was an enormous amount of firepower."One of McDermott's co-workers, Mike Stanley, described the accused gunman as "six-foot-two, about 300 pounds with a big beard". He was a bit strange. But he was amiable guy.

Vincent van Gogh paintings

Vincent van Gogh paintings
Vittore Carpaccio paintings
Sure to be on his agenda is the spiraling electricity crisis in California, where citizens were bracing for a second day of possible blackouts on Thursday amid unprecedented chaos in the state's power supplies. Before kicking off the first of three days of inauguration festivities with a concert at the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday afternoon, Bush was slated to continue rehearsing his 10-12 minute inaugural address with the aid of a TelePrompTer. Spokesman Ari Fleischer underscored the importance of Bush's inaugural speech, telling reporters the Texas governor would "talk about a unified nation" as he sought to deliver on his campaign promise to be "a uniter, not a divider."

building painting

building painting
Children painting
Based on the order, the slaughtered meat will be distributed to the poor residents of Kabul and other areas," a Taliban official told reporters at the presidential palace in Kabul. Each one would receive around one kilogram of meat, the official added, as workers packed the bloody chunks of meat into plastic bags. The Taliban argue that the destruction of the statues, including the two colossal Buddhas in Bamiyan province, is based on Islamic law and is an internal issue. The move has drawn international condemnation, with many Islamic countries questioning the religious basis for the decision. Many Buddhist countries have been especially angered at the destruction of Afghanistan's pre-Islamic Buddhist heritage, although the Taliban have denied the campaign was aimed against their religion.

Benjamin Williams Leader paintings

Benjamin Williams Leader paintings
Bartolome Esteban Murillo paintings

Although China’s corn exports hit a record high of 10.4 million tons in 2000, the government predicts an overall decline for 2001.
Government procurement for corn in the 2000-2001 harvest season was very low. In Heilongjiang province, it was down by 50 percent from 2000. In addition, farmers are reluctant to sell out their reserves since the domestic price of corn is running relatively high. As a result, the government expects a drop in the volume of corn eligible for exports, reported the Feb. 20 Qihuo Ribao (Futures Daily).The State Grain and Edible Oil Information Center has made a contradicting prediction, however, asserting that China will still have an oversupply of corn in 2001 as its production is estimated to reach 133 million tons in the year. A source from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange also told ChinaOnline that he was skeptical about the anticipated drop of China’s corn exports in 2001.

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Virgin of the Adoption painting

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Virgin of the Adoption painting
Tamara de Lempicka Self Portrait in Green Bugatti painting
century. By adding a walkway close to the monument, engineers unintentionally shifted the soil underneath the tower. This seemingly harmless act gradually caused the lean to worsen by several inches. The Italian government formed a commission to find a way to prevent any further slide."It's not often widely appreciated that the tower was literally on the point of falling over," says John Burland, a professor of soil mechanics at London's Imperial College who worked on the project. "Anything we did was extremely delicate."But throughout the repair process, the tower proved strong enough to stand on its own. Or to be more precise, Burland points out, the tower's

Guillaume Seignac Psyche painting

Guillaume Seignac Psyche painting
John William Waterhouse The Lady of Shalott painting
mountaineer by training, Robert's first urban feat took place in his hometown of Valence, when the then-12-year-old scampered up to enter his family's eighth-floor apartment after losing his keys. Now 39, his conquests have included the Sears Towers, the Empire State building, the Eiffel Tower and the world's highest skyscraper in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. police are known to be a lot more sympathetic towards the local Spiderman than police in many parts of the world. Robert was apprehended onthe top of the headquarters of the oil corporation TotalFinaElf in the city's crowded La Defense business district.
stuntman Alain Robert, also known as Spiderman, climbs the 627-foot-tall TotalFinaElf building in Paris.
Daredevil French

William Bouguereau The Broken Pitcher painting

William Bouguereau The Broken Pitcher painting
John William Waterhouse Ophelia painting
tightrope walking across a fallen log, treasure hunting in a stream and checking out bugs — mean a lot more to the family than a ride on a swing. "They see something that's just been born and they see things that are dead and or dying," Roxanne says. "So it's a great way to talk about life and death and all the stages in between." Join in the Activities While they are cherishing the environment and the creatures that share it, the children are also learning compassion, curiosity and self-reliance. But parents should remember that children learn these lessons by example, not by preaching, Murphy says. "The key is to get out there with them and experience it with them, to be

Vladimir Volegov paintings

Vladimir Volegov paintings
Vincent van Gogh paintings
worldwide sales to remain flat compared to 2000."There is an underlying weakness in the market caused by saturation," Smulders says. "Everybody who needs a PC pretty much has one. That means we won't see the sustained levels of growth that we've had in the past 15 or 20 years." What Will Spur Sales?Indeed, analysts frequently say they feel the PC market in the United States has become "mature" — that is, the market has reached the point where explosive growth ends and relatively few households will be buying a PC for the first time. "I think it's pretty likely that what we've seen is the shifting of the market into a more mature market," says Baker. He estimates that nearly 60 percent of households have a PC, and thinks it is possible that the figure could rise into the 70s. "It's not the VCR and TV and it's never going to be, but … there's this glimmer of hope that there's another market of people who could conceivably come out and buy a computer."

Dirck Bouts paintings

Dirck Bouts paintings
Dante Gabriel Rossetti paintings

The tough economic times appear to be having a ripple effect — 200 miles above Earth.
Citing a $4.8 billion cost overrun, new NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe is considering whether to extend short-term cuts in the International Space Station into long-term policy. He is expected to make a decision on the matter in a year to 18 months.At stake are billions of dollars — U.S. estimated costs have risen from about $17.4 billion in 1993 to about $30 billion today — that some policymakers and scientists argue could be better spent. But researchers say the station must continue as planned so astronauts can complete a backlog of promised research that could be critical for expanding the human presence in space."The real value we saw in the space station was the availability of human-guided, long-term research in microgravity. Now that may not happen," says Mary Musgrave, a professor of natural sciences and math at the University

Venice paintings

Venice paintings
Village painting
including milk and other dairy products.)It's obvious that some animals die when their land is taken away for farming, Norris says, "but you take it away only once." It doesn't lead to the continuous slaughter of animals for human consumption, he contends, because once the land is turned into a farm, there aren't that many animals around to kill.Davis admits he doesn't really know how many animals are lost each year to agriculture, but he suspects it runs in the millions. Not many farmers do a before-and-after survey, so the best data are really just estimates.But it's clear that many are killed to put meat and dairy products on our tables, and Norris and others are just as concerned over the suffering of those animals prior to slaughter as they are over the deaths themselves.Citing numerous studies by federal agencies, as well as news organizations

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wine painting
Abstract paintings
conclusion is misguided because they are killing animals so that they can eat that vegetarian diet," Davis says. "Those animals happen to be a little bit invisible. They are not as obvious to the man on the street as killing a steer in the slaughterhouse. But nonetheless, it's still going on."Ever since he revealed his conclusions, Davis' e-mail box has been jammed with responses, much of it from vegetarians, and not all of it friendly. Most of it, though, has been "quite decent," he says, because vegetarians tend to be well-educated, sensitive and thoughtful folks.One-Time Kill vs. Continuous Slaughter"This is something we've been aware of for a long time," admits Jack Norris, president of Vegan Outreach in Davis, Calif., an organization that is dedicated to spreading the gospel of vegetarianism. (Norris is a vegan, by the way, which is even more restrictive then vegetarianism in that it

Alexandre Cabanel The Birth of Venus painting

Alexandre Cabanel The Birth of Venus painting
Guillaume Seignac La Libellule painting
According to Nakamura's team, it's possible that the health effects of eggs are greater in a population such as the Japanese, who may get a relatively large portion of their dietary cholesterol from eggs. The researchers studied data on nearly 9,300 men and women who in 1980 completed lifestyle surveys, which included questions on how frequently they ate various foods. Participants' blood pressure, cholesterol levels and other health indicators were measured at the start of the study, and deaths were tracked over the next 14 years. At the start of the study, the average cholesterol level among women who had a daily egg was three percent higher than that of women who ate eggs more sparingly. The researchers found that women who ate an egg a day were 22 percent more likely to die of any cause compared with those who ate only a couple eggs per week -- regardless of factors such as age, smoking habits and body weight. Those who ate two or more eggs a day showed a still higher death risk

Pablo Picasso Girl Before a Mirror painting

Pablo Picasso Girl Before a Mirror painting
Albert Bierstadt Autumn Woods painting
rit and I are so busy making wedding plans," she says on the singer's website. "Her dress is the most beautiful dress ever. Sorry I can't give you any details, but I promise major information and photos will be given to the fan club site after the fact." The event will reportedly cost upward of $1 million, and sources say more than $150,000 is being spent on importing white tulips from Holland, along with a pre-order of 300 bottles of Cristal champagne - at $260 a pop.
Health experts recommend limiting egg yolks, as one yolk contains about two-thirds of a healthy adult's suggested allotment of cholesterol. Researchers in Japan found that women who ate one or more ...
Health experts recommend limiting egg yolks, as one yolk contains about two-thirds of a healthy adult's suggested allotment of cholesterol.Researchers in Japan found that women who consumed one or more eggs a day were more likely to die than women who ate one or two eggs a week. The findings are published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The new results support advice to eat eggs in moderation, Dr. Yasuyuki Nakamura of Kyoto Women's University told Reuters Health.

Decorative painting

Decorative painting
the door and said, "What do you think I'm doing here?" Jackie started shaking uncontrollably. I hugged her, but it didn't help. She continued to shake -- to the point where I thought she'd collapse -- so I got down on my knee, pulled out the ring, and launched into my proposal. Her hand shook as I slid the ring onto her finger, and her eyes filled with tears. She was speechless. Romeo #4:I wanted Amanda to be totally surprised when I proposed, so I started with a movie and a casual dinner at one of our favorite little spots in Virginia Beach. As we ordered dessert, I knew she didn't have a clue what I was planning. After dinner we went miniature golfing -- one of her favorite summertime activities. Conveniently, the miniature golf course was very close to the beach. I suggested a stroll. We went to a secluded spot on the beach and began walking. Amanda didn't realize it, but I was carrying a towel and had tucked a

Salvador Dali The Rose painting

Salvador Dali The Rose painting
Vincent van Gogh Cafe Terrace at Night painting
when times go by,I‘ve lost something but I‘ve got something at the same time It‘s my last year in the university,well,to complaint or to memory isn‘t the most important thing during this time, I have many things to do. first, i have to learn as much as i could, study is ever the main power to strength us. this feeling is stronger than ever before at this moment.i think twice about myself,while others were enjoying their times when get together, i eager to join their, but, at the end,i feel pity for myself,do i really happy those times? no, i do not happy at all for those things that i did not really want to do.i was a dull girl, not younger any more,but i know i could study.when times I feel seak or sad about trifflers, i try to read more, there are more or less good tips exists in books to response for bad cases.i was really lucky,since i bbgan to understand some things and some people around me, i ‘ve met some poeple want to help me out of problems. i really appreciate for their kindly help.i also met some people treat me really bad when they want to ,the most things i do is to how to answer those unfriendly things, while it is absolutly not a sweet feeling when I feel hurting, i‘ve upset,cried, i always tried to keep strong before friends, they said i was a tough girl,well, it sounds great,but......,i feeling i can‘t keep optimistic everytime, i feel really tired.i do not born as a power girl.

Claude Lorrain paintings

Claude Lorrain paintings
Claude Monet paintings
One evening as I was lying flat on the deck of my steamboat, I heard voices approaching - and there were the nephew and the uncle strolling along the bank. I laid my head on my arm again, and had nearly lost myself in a doze, when somebody said in my ear, as it were: ‘I am as harmless as a little child, but I don’t like to be dictated to. Am I the manager - or am I not? I was ordered to send him there. It’s incredible.’... I became aware that the two were standing on the shore alongside the forepart of the steamboat, just below my head. I did not move; it did not occur to me to move: I was sleepy. ‘It is unpleasant,’ grunted the uncle. ‘He has asked the Administration to be sent there,’ said the other, ‘with the idea of showing what he could do; and I was instructed accordingly. Look at the influence that man must have. Is it not frightful?’ They both agreed it was frightful, then made several bizarre remarks: ‘Make rain and fine weather - one man - the Council - by the nose’ - bits of absurd sentences that got the better of my drowsiness, so that I had pretty near the whole of my wits about me when the uncle said, ‘The

Fabian Perez tergopelo II painting

Fabian Perez tergopelo II painting
flower The Fruit Basket painting
You know very well how she will decide it," said Anne, almost in tears. "She has ideals of duty, too. I don't see how you can take such a responsibility on your shoulders. I couldn't." "`Because right is right to follow right
Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence,'"
quoted Gilbert.
"Oh, you think a couplet of poetry a convincing argument!" scoffed Anne. "That is so like a man."
And then she laughed in spite of herself. It sounded so like an echo of Miss Cornelia.
"Well, if you won't accept Tennyson as an authority, perhaps you will believe the words of a Greater than he," said Gilbert seriously. "`Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.' I believe that, Anne, with all my heart. It's the greatest and grandest verse in the Bible--or in any literature--and the truest, if there are comparative degrees of trueness. And it's the first duty of a man to tell the truth, as he sees it and believes it."
"In this case the truth won't make poor Leslie free," sighed Anne. "It will probably

Pino Purity painting

Pino Purity painting
Pablo Picasso Girl with Mandolin Fanny Tellie painting
bound to set the sanctity of a patient's mind and body above all other considerations, no matter what the consequences may be. I believe it his duty to endeavor to restore health and sanity, if there is any hope whatever of it."
"But Dick isn't your patient in that respect," cried Anne, taking another tack. "If Leslie had asked you if anything could be done for him, then it might be your duty to tell her what you really thought. But you've no right to meddle ."
"I don't call it meddling. Uncle Dave told Leslie twelve years ago that nothing could be done for Dick. She believes that, of course."
"And why did Uncle Dave tell her that, if it wasn't true?" cried Anne, triumphantly. "Doesn't he know as much about it as you?"
"I think not--though it may sound conceited and presumptuous to say

Stephen Gjertson The Anniversary painting

Stephen Gjertson The Anniversary painting
Pablo Picasso Le Moulin de la Galette painting
Life may be a vale of tears, all right, but there are some folks who enjoy weeping, I reckon."
They spent the old year's last hour quietly around the fire. A few minutes before twelve Captain Jim rose and opened the door.
"We must let the New Year in," he said.
Outside was a fine blue night. A sparkling ribbon of moonlight garlanded the gulf. Inside the bar the harbor shone like a pavement of pearl. They stood before the door and waited--Captain Jim with his ripe, full experience, Marshall Elliott in his vigorous but empty middle life, Gilbert and Anne with their precious memories and exquisite hopes, Leslie with her record of starved years and her hopeless future. The clock on the little shelf above the fireplace struck twelve.
"Welcome, New Year," said Captain Jim, bowing low as the last stroke died away. "I wish you all the best year of your lives, mates. I reckon that whatever the New Year brings us will be the best the Great Captain has for us--and somehow or other we'll all make port in a good harbor."

Maxfield Parrish paintings

Maxfield Parrish paintings
Martin Johnson Heade paintings
It was the first time Gilbert had said "my wife" to anybody but Anne, and he narrowly escaped bursting with the pride of it. The old captain held out a sinewy hand to Anne; they smiled at each other and were friends from that moment. Kindred spirit flashed recognition to kindred spirit.
"I'm right down pleased to meet you, Mistress Blythe; and I hope you'll be as happy as the first bride was who came here. I can't wish you no better than that. But your husband doesn't introduce me jest exactly right. `Captain Jim' is my week-a-day name and you might as well begin as you're sartain to end up--calling me that. You sartainly are a nice little bride, Mistress Blythe. Looking at you sorter makes me feel that I've jest been married myself."
Amid the laughter that followed Mrs. Doctor Dave urged Captain Jim to stay and have supper with them.
"Thank you kindly. 'Twill be a real treat, Mistress Doctor. I mostly has to eat my meals alone, with the reflection of my ugly old phiz in a looking-glass opposite for company. 'Tisn't often I have a chance to sit down with two such sweet, purty ladies."

Jules Breton paintings

Jules Breton paintings
Johannes Vermeer paintings
Come, you two, don't quarrel over Eaton's catalogue," said Anne gaily. "This is my day of days, you know. I'm so happy I want every one else to be happy, too."
"I'm sure I hope your happiness will last, child," sighed Mrs. Rachel. She did hope it truly, and believed it, but she was afraid it was in the nature of a challenge to Providence to flaunt your happiness too openly. Anne, for her own good, must be toned down a trifle.
But it was a happy and beautiful bride who came down the old, homespun-carpeted stairs that September noon--the first bride of Green Gables, slender and shining-eyed, in the mist of her maiden veil, with her arms full of roses. Gilbert, waiting for her in the hall below, looked up at her with adoring eyes. She was his at last, this evasive, long-sought Anne, won after years of patient waiting. It was to him she was coming in the sweet surrender of the bride. Was he worthy of her? Could he make her as happy as he hoped? If he failed her--if he could not measure up to her standard of manhood--then, as she held out her hand, their eyes met and all doubt was swept away in a glad certainty. They belonged to each other; and, no matter what life might hold for them, it could never alter that. Their happiness was in each other's keeping and both were unafraid.

Federico Andreotti paintings

Federico Andreotti paintings
Fra Angelico paintings
were forgotten when Gilbert came later, and they wandered down to the birches of the brook, which had been saplings when Anne had come to Green Gables, but were now tall, ivory columns in a fairy palace of twilight and stars. In their shadows Anne and Gilbert talked in lover-fashion of their new home and their new life together.
"I've found a nest for us, Anne."
"Oh, where? Not right in the village, I hope. I wouldn't like that altogether."
"No. There was no house to be had in the village. This is a little white house on the harbor shore, half way between Glen St. Mary and Four Winds Point. It's a little out of the way, but when we get a 'phone in that won't matter so much. The situation is beautiful. It looks to the sunset and has the great blue harbor before it. The sand-dunes aren't very far away--the sea winds blow over them and the sea spray drenches them."
"But the house itself, Gilbert,--our first home? What is it like?"

Arthur Hughes paintings

Arthur Hughes paintings
Albert Bierstadt paintings
Christine was engaged to somebody in her home town. I knew it and she knew I knew it. When her brother graduated he told me his sister was coming to Kingsport the next winter to take music, and asked me if I would look after her a bit, as she knew no one and would be very lonely. So I did. And then I liked Christine for her own sake. She is one of the nicest girls I've ever known. I knew college gossip credited us with being in love with each other. I didn't care. Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school."
"I don't see how you could keep on loving me when I was such a little fool," said Anne.
"Well, I tried to stop," said Gilbert frankly, "not because I thought you what you call yourself, but because I felt sure there was no chance for me after Gardner came on the scene. But I couldn't -- and I can't tell you, either, what it's meant to me these two years to believe

John Singer Sargent Two Women Asleep in a Punt under the Willows painting

John Singer Sargent Two Women Asleep in a Punt under the Willows painting
Lord Frederick Leighton The Painter's Honeymoon painting
can't help believing it's going to happen in Anne's case, if Providence doesn't interfere, that's what." Mrs. Rachel sighed. She was afraid Providence wouldn't interfere; and she didn't dare to.
Anne had wandered down to the Dryad's Bubble and was curled up among the ferns at the root of the big white birch where she and Gilbert had so often sat in summers gone by. He had gone into the newspaper office again when college closed, and Avonlea seemed very dull without him. He never wrote to her, and Anne missed the letters that never came. To be sure, Roy wrote twice a week; his letters were exquisite compositions which would have read beautifully in a memoir or biography. Anne felt herself more deeply in love with him than ever when she read them; but her heart never gave the queer, quick, painful bound at sight of his letters which it had given one day when Mrs. Hiram Sloane had handed her out an envelope addressed in Gilbert's black, upright handwriting. Anne had hurried home to the east gable and opened it eagerly -- to find a typewritten copy of some college society report -- "only that and nothing more." Anne flung the harmless screed across her room and sat down to write an especially nice epistle to Roy.

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Claude Monet Vetheuil In Summer painting
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while he waited. The Sarah-cat did not approve of him. She always turned her back on him. But everybody else at Patty's Place liked him very much. Aunt Jamesina, carried away by his unfailing and deferential courtesy, and the pleading tones of his delightful voice, declared he was the nicest young man she ever knew, and that Anne was a very fortunate girl. Such remarks made Anne restive. Roy's wooing had certainly been as romantic as girlish heart could desire, but -- she wished Aunt Jamesina and the girls would not take things so for granted. When Roy murmured a poetical compliment as he helped her on with her coat, she did not blush and thrill as usual; and he found her rather silent in their brief walk to Redmond. He thought she looked a little pale when she came out of the coeds' dressing room; but as they entered the reception room her color and sparkle suddenly returned to her. She turned to Roy with her gayest expression. He smiled back at her with what Phil called "his deep, black, velvety smile." Yet she really did not see Roy at all. She was acutely conscious that Gilbert was standing under the palms just across the room talking to a girl who must be Christine Stuart.
She was very handsome, in the stately style destined to become rather

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Claude Monet The Picnic painting
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You two talk as much foolishness as ever you did," said old Mrs. Irving, half-indulgently, half-reprovingly.
"Oh, no, we don't," said Anne, shaking her head gravely. "We are getting very, very wise, and it is such a pity. We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts."
"But it isn't -- it is given us to exchange our thoughts," said Mrs. Irving seriously. She had never heard of Tallyrand and did not understand epigrams.
Anne spent a fortnight of halcyon days at Echo Lodge in the golden prime of August. While there she incidentally contrived to hurry Ludovic Speed in his leisurely courting of Theodora Dix, as related duly in another chronicle of her history.[1] Arnold Sherman, an elderly friend of the Irvings, was there at the same time, and added not a little to the general pleasantness of life.
([1] Chronicles of Avonlea.)

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Vladimir Volegov Beyond the Sea painting
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couldn't find any. It's too late in the season, I suppose."
"Heather!" exclaimed Anne. "Heather doesn't grow in America, does it?"
"There are just two patches of it in the whole continent," said Phil, "one right here in the park, and one somewhere else in Nova Scotia, I forget where. The famous Highland Regiment, the Black Watch, camped here one year, and, when the men shook out the straw of their beds in the spring, some seeds of heather took root."
"Oh, how delightful!" said enchanted Anne.
"Let's go home around by Spofford Avenue," suggested Gilbert. "We can see all `the handsome houses where the wealthy nobles dwell.' Spofford Avenue is the finest residential street in Kingsport. Nobody can build on it unless he's a millionaire."
"Oh, do," said Phil. "There's a perfectly killing little place I want to show you

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Albert Bierstadt Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains California painting
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herself back in Avonlea while reading it. Marilla's was a rather prim and colorless epistle, severely innocent of gossip or emotion. Yet somehow it conveyed to Anne a whiff of the wholesome, simple life at Green Gables, with its savor of ancient peace, and the steadfast abiding love that was there for her. Mrs. Lynde's letter was full of church news. Having broken up housekeeping, Mrs. Lynde had more time than ever to devote to church affairs and had flung herself into them heart and soul. She was at present much worked up over the poor "supplies" they were having in the vacant Avonlea pulpit.
"I don't believe any but fools enter the ministry nowadays," she wrote bitterly. "Such candidates as they have sent us, and such stuff as they preach! Half of it ain't true, and, what's worse, it ain't sound doctrine. The one we have now is the worst of the lot. He mostly takes a text and preaches about something else. And he says he doesn't believe all the heathen will be eternally lost. The idea! If they won't all the money we've been giving to Foreign Missions will be clean

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Mr. Harrison did his best to speak dolefully, but an irrepressible twinkle in his eye betrayed him.
"Mr. Harrison, you are glad your wife is come back," cried Anne, shaking her finger at him. "You needn't pretend you're not, because I can see it plainly."
Mr. Harrison relaxed into a sheepish smile.
"Well. . .well. . .I'm getting used to it," he conceded. "I can't say I was sorry to see Emily. A man really needs some protection in a community like this, where he can't play a game of checkers with a neighbor without being accused of wanting to marry that neighbor's sister and having it put in the paper."
"Nobody would have supposed you went to see Isabella Andrews if you hadn't pretended to be unmarried," said Anne severely.

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carried her chicken into the house.
Anne pinned her narcissi on her hair and went to the lane gate, where she stood for awhile sunning herself in the June brightness before going in to attend to her Saturday morning duties. The world was growing lovely again; old Mother Nature was doing her best to remove the traces of the storm, and, though she was not to succeed fully for many a moon, she was really accomplishing wonders.
"I wish I could just be idle all day today," Anne told a bluebird, who was singing and swinging on a willow bough, "but a schoolma'am, who is also helping to bring up twins, can't indulge in laziness, birdie. How sweet you are singing, little bird. You are just putting the feelings of my heart into song ever so much better than I could myself. Why, who is coming?"
An express wagon was jolting up the lane, with two people on the front seat and a big trunk behind. When it drew near Anne recognized the driver as the son of the station agent at Bright

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now, of course. How sympathetic you look, Anne. . .as sympathetic as only seventeen can look. But don't overdo it. I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart. My heart did break, if ever a heart did, when I realized that Stephen Irving was not coming back. But, Anne, a broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth. . .though you won't think that a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it. And now you're looking disappointed. You don't think I'm half as interesting a person as you did five minutes ago when you believed I was always the prey of a tragic memory bravely hidden beneath external smiles. That's the worst. . .or the best. . . of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable. . .and succeeding...even when you're determined

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to some still, green, friendly place where she could reSt. And she got just what she wanted, which is something very few people do, I believe. She had four beautiful years before she died. . .four years of perfect happiness, so I think she was to be envied more than pitied. And then to shut your eyes and fall asleep among roses, with the one you loved best on earth smiling down at you. . .oh, I think it was beautiful!"
"She set out those cherry trees over there," said Diana. "She told mother she'd never live to eat their fruit, but she wanted to think that something she had planted would go on living and helping to make the world beautiful after she was dead."
"I'm so glad we came this way," said Anne, the shining

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George Frederick Watts Love And Life painting
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She did so. She told me last Tuesday that something dreadful would happen to me if I didn't say my prayers every night. And I haven't said them for over a week, just to see what would happen. . . and nothing has," concluded Davy in an aggrieved tone.
Anne choked back a mad desire to laugh with the conviction that it would be fatal, and then earnestly set about saving Marilla's reputation.
"Why, Davy Keith," she said solemnly, "something dreadful has happened to you this very day"
Davy looked sceptical.
"I s'pose you mean being sent to bed without any supper," he said scornfully, "but that isn't dreadful. Course, I don't like it, but I've been sent to bed so much since I come here that I'm getting used to it. And you don't

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Eduard Manet Flowers In A Crystal Vase painting
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her life Marilla took no notice of the text and Anne sat with scarlet cheeks of mortification.
When they got home Marilla put Davy to bed and made him stay there for the rest of the day. She would not give him any dinner but allowed him a plain tea of bread and milk. Anne carried it to him and sat sorrowfully by him while he ate it with an unrepentant relish. But Anne's mournful eyes troubled him.
"I s'pose," he said reflectively, "that Paul Irving wouldn't have dropped a caterpillar down a girl's neck in church, would he?"
"Indeed he wouldn't," said Anne sadly.
"Well, I'm kind of sorry I did it, then," conceded Davy. "But it was such a jolly big caterpillar. . .I picked him up on the church steps just as we went in. It seemed a pity to waste him. And say, wasn't it fun to hear that girl yell

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them but they were dying. That's the way with Martin's aunts."
"Martin's just like all the rest of those French," said Marilla in disgust. "You can't depend on them for a day." Marilla was looking over Anne's Carmody purchases when she heard a shrill shriek in the barnyard. A minute later Anne dashed into the kitchen, wringing her hands.
"Anne Shirley, what's the matter now?"
"Oh, Marilla, whatever shall I do? This is terrible. And it's all my fault. Oh, will I ever learn to stop and reflect a little before doing reckless things? Mrs. Lynde always told me I would do something dreadful some day, and now I've done it!"
"Anne, you are the most exasperating girl! What is it you've done?"
"Sold Mr. Harrison's Jersey cow. . .the one he bought from Mr. Bell . . .to Mr. Shearer! Dolly is out in the milking pen this very minute."