Berthe Morisot paintings

Berthe Morisot paintings
Cheri Blum paintings
Camille Pissarro paintings
Carl Fredrik Aagard paintings
things over. You were right in telling me how kind they were; I feel myself so safe here. I wish that you were with us.'' She ended with a conventional ``Yours sincerely,'' and without any allusion to the date of her return.
The tone of the note surprised the young man. What was Madame Olenska running away from, and why
-126-did she feel the need to be safe? His first thought was of some dark menace from abroad; then he reflected that he did not know her epistolary style, and that it might run to picturesque exaggeration. Women always exaggerated; and moreover she was not wholly at her ease in English, which she often spoke as if she were translating from the French. ``Je me suis évadée -- '' put in that way, the opening sentence immediately suggested that she might merely have wanted to escape from a boring round of engagements; which was very likely true, for he judged her to be capricious, and easily wearied of the pleasure of the moment.