Carl Fredrik Aagard The Deer Park painting

Carl Fredrik Aagard The Deer Park paintingSalvador Dali The Great Masturbator paintingSalvador Dali Sleep painting
Ron shook his head. "And you're not either, are you?"
Harry shook his head too.
"And Hermione," said Ron, "she's not, is she?"
Harry shook his head again. Exactly what Hagrid would say when he realized his three favorite students had given up his subject, he did not like to think. "I cannot emphasize strongly enough how dangerous the present situation is, and how much care each of us at Hogwarts must take to ensure that we remain safe. The castle’s magical fortifications have been strengthened over the summer, we are protected over the summer,"
Harry whispered to Hermione. "I thought he'd have cured it by now, though ... or Madam Pomfrey would've done."
"It looks as if it's died," said Hermione, with a nauseated

John Collier Lady Godiva painting

John Collier Lady Godiva painting
Caravaggio Supper at Emmaus painting
"My job's ter get you there safe, Harry!" bellow Hagrid, and he opened the throttle. "Stop – STOP!" Harry shouted, but as he looked back again two jets of green light flew past his left ear: Four Death Eaters had broken away from the circle and were pursuing them, aiming for Hagrid's broad back. Hagrid swerved, but the Death Eaters were keeping up with the bike; more curses shot after them, and Harry had to sink low into the sidecar to avoid them. Wriggling around he cried, "Stupefy!" and a red bolt of light shot from his own wand, cleaving a gap between the four pursuing Death Eaters as they scattered to avoid it.

　　　"Hold on, Harry, this'll do for 'em!" roared Hagrid, and Harry looked up just in time to see Hagrid slamming a thick finger into a green button near the

Rembrandt Belshazzar's Feast painting

Rembrandt Belshazzar's Feast painting
Leighton Flaming June painting
The Trace, the Trace!" said Mad-Eye impatiently. "The charm that detects magical activity around under-seventeens, the way the Ministry finds out about underage magic! If you, or anyone around you, casts a spell to get you out of here, Thicknesse is going to know about it, and so will the Death Eaters."

　　　"We can't wait for the Trace to break, because the moment you turn seventeen you'll lose all the protection your mother gave you. In short, Pius Thicknesse thinks he's got you cornered good and proper."

Harry could not help but agree with the unknown Thicknesse.

"So what are we going to do?"

Vincent van Gogh The Night Cafe painting

Vincent van Gogh The Night Cafe painting
Vincent van Gogh Cafe Terrace at Night painting
swerved and avoided it, but the fourth was not so lucky; He vanished from view and then dropped like a boulder from behind it, his broomstick broken into pieces. One of his fellows slowed up to save him, but they and the airborne wall were swallowed by darkness as Hagrid leaned low over the handlebars and sped up.

　　　More Killing Curses flew past Harry's head from the two remaining Death Eaters' wands; they were aiming for Hagrid. Harry responded with further Stunning Spells: Red and green collided in midair in a shower of multicolored sparks, and Harry thought wildly of fireworks, and the Muggles below who would have no idea what was happening –

Francois Boucher The Rape of Europa painting

Francois Boucher The Rape of Europa painting
Michelangelo Buonarroti The Creation of Adam painting
Background There have been many studies investigating the impact of the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score on predicting post-transplant outcome. But it is unclear whether MELD is correlated to intraoperative fluid therapy and coagulation status. We investigated the relationship between the severity of liver diseases as measured by MELD score and intraoperative fluid requirements and the changes of coagulation characteristics.Methods Ninety patients were included in this retrospective study. The patients were stratified into three groups according to the MELD scores: <15>25 (high). Intraoperatively, volume was restored with allogeneic and/or salvaged red blood cells (RBC), fresh-frozen plasma (FFP), platelet and other types of fluids according to hemodynamic data, hematocrit, and clotting data. Intraoperative coagulation data, blood requirements and other fluids administered were compared among the 3 groups. Results Before surgery, in addition

Edward Hopper Nighthawks painting

Edward Hopper Nighthawks painting
Frederic Edwin Church Sunset painting
compensated　emancipation of the slaves. The slaves were property they　were on the tax books along with horses and cats, the valuation　of each slave written next to his name in the tax assessors　books. And failing to get action on compensated emancipation.　he took the only other course. As a chief executive having more　powers, he issued the paper by which he declared the slaves to　be free, under military necessity In the end. nearly four billion　dollars worth of property was taken away from those who were　legal owners of it. Property confiscated, wiped out as by tire　and turned to ashes. At his instigation and executive direction, chattel property recognized in law books for three hundred years was expropriated, seized without payment.And how did Lincoln say he would like to be remembered? Something

William Bouguereau The Abduction of Psyche painting

William Bouguereau The Abduction of Psyche painting
William Bouguereau the first kiss painting
Many Feel the 'Kennedy Curse' Has Struck Again Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy pose with eight of their children on the lawn of their Virginia home on Oct. 15, 1966. Success, Sadness in Equal Measure It is only the latest tragedy in a string of unimaginable bad luck that has regularly befallen the Kennedys — a sprawling clan whose legacy is so exalted and romanticized, it has often been called the closest thing America has to a royal family.But five decades of misfortune has also brought the label, "the Kennedy curse."

Francisco de Goya Nude Maja painting

Francisco de Goya Nude Maja painting
childe hassam Wayside Inn Sudbury Massachusetts painting
music for free using technology such as Napster.“I believe all four of these schemes would have been cracked by pirates if they had been deployed,” said Edward Felten, an associate professor of computer science at Princeton.An SDMI representative said Monday that it was too early to verify the researchers’ claims, but that complete circumvention of all four security schemes was a “fairly low-probability event.” He said that even if the technologies were defeated, it would not prevent SDMI from devising strong and effective security measures.“I expected some would have fallen,” said SDMI’s Talal Shamoon. “This is part of an empirical process to get the best technology.” He said he doubts the researchers successfully defeated all four technologies. But if they did, the attacks would be used to strengthen the schemes.“The attacks themselves teach,” he said. “If all of these proposals were blown away beyond hope, which I believe is remote, then we need to look at the system as a whole, need to look if we need to invite new people to submit technologies or not. It’s a process of successive refinement

Thomas Kinkade New Horizons painting

Thomas Kinkade New Horizons painting
Thomas Kinkade Mountain Paradise painting
Sony Computer Entertainment blamed a shortage of components on the reduction and said it is still on target to ship 3 million units to North America and 10 million units worldwide by March. The news sparked a 13% drop in Sony's stock price and an across-the-board decline in shares of such interactive entertainment companies as Electronic Arts, Activision, Take-Two and THQ Inc. (Nasdaq:THQI ) "In the grand scheme of things, the initial delay of half a million units really isn't that big of a deal, particularly because people are buying this machine upfront and there's going to be strong demand for it," Iribarren said. No figures on PS2 preorders were available, but such retailers as Circuit City and Best Buy have made it clear that they expect to sell out of the consoles within minutes of opening their doors Thursday.

Edward Hopper Nighthawks painting

Edward Hopper Nighthawks painting
Frederic Edwin Church Sunset painting
That was enough to keep him in the race far longer than the computer models projected, if not enough to win him the most votes. But then came the second campaign, and the way he played the endgame told us even more about him than anything he had said as a candidate. Through the five-week Florida prizefight, he showed what he meant when he kept saying he would hire the best people, give them their freedom and hold them accountable. He stood back, stayed out of the fray since law isn't his field and he knows what he doesn't know. Even some Democrats now say privately that Bush and his soft serums may be better suited to cure the disease that afflicts the capital. With a Congress almost perfectly bisected, Republicans thirsty for power and Democrats for revenge, Bush is the one holding the needle and thread. He always said he

childe hassam The Sonata painting

childe hassam The Sonata painting
William Bouguereau The Broken Pitcher painting

An unidentified man and woman grieve outside a church nearby to where a heavily armed employee shot and killed seven co-workers at a troubled Internet consulting firm on December 26, 2000. The alleged gunman was hired in March by Edgewater, an Internet software consulting firm located in a three-story renovated factory building in Wakefield.
WAKEFIELD, Mass. - A heavily armed employee gunned down seven co-workers in a "work-related" shooting spree at a troubled Internet consulting firm on Tuesday, the day after Christmas, officials said.The suspect, Michael McDermott, 42, was set to be arraigned on murder charges on Wednesday, officials said.

Titian paintings

Titian paintings
Theodore Chasseriau paintings
An elder statesman of the blues, Smith uses his tune to evoke the sentiment of frustration most Internet users have felt at one time or another, through slow connections, busy signals or unavailable pages. "Dot Com Blues" is a fluid, fast-paced song, showcasing Smith's organ-playing talents and maybe reflecting the speed of the Internet age. "Jimmy, probably being from the older segment of the population, reflects how many of the population feel about this tech overload," said Eric Gruner, station manager at WGMC, an all-jazz radio station in Rochester, N.Y. "My grandfather was an optical engineer and I remember the first time CDs came out, showing it to him — he's looking at a CD and says, 'music comes from this?' ... that, to me, is an example of the dot-com blues." Smith's track doesn't have lyrics. But Mark Elf, a jazz guitarist schooled

animal paintings

animal paintings
ballet paintings
The next step then, was a script now called cuneiform. Cuneiform was a series of wedge-shaped signs, developed from the pictures, but used sounds to represent objects and ideas. Although it also contained hundreds of characters, it was also more versatile. Cuneiform spread quickly from the Sumerians, to the Assyrians, Babylonians, Elamites, Hittites, Hurrians and the Urartu.It was used for thousands of years, until as recently the first century B.C., when it was replaced by the much simpler Aramaic system.But the Sumerians left an impression that lasts until this day. Scholars say ancient Persian was derived from cuneiform, and one of the earliest legal documents, the Code of Hammurabi, was written in cuneiform

Anders Zorn paintings

Anders Zorn paintings
Anne-Francois-Louis Janmot paintings
The Northeast will experience tight electricity supplies, with utility bills especially steep around New York.The Midwest could see a repeat of pump prices that topped $2 a gallon last year.At least it's not a conspiracy, according to a government investigation. The Federal Trade Commission said today that some gasoline suppliers did jack up prices last summer but they did not conspire with one another to do it. No One Reason for ProblemsThe oil industry says the report is vindication, but it, too, worries about this year."We do not see the same kind of events that were around last year," said Red Caveney of the American Petroleum Institute. "But were something unforeseen to occur, because it's very, very tight, it's not impossible that that could

Gustav Klimt two girls with an oleander painting

Gustav Klimt two girls with an oleander painting
Pino Purity painting
energy as the Byron plant, but at $450 million, a tenth of the cost.In addition to Exelon, major players in the nuclear industry who could be gearing up to build new plants include Dominion Resources (located in Virginia), Entergy Corp. (which runs plants in Louisiana and Mississippi), and the Southern Company (operating nuclear plants in numerous Southern states). Cheaper Electricity?With lower building costs, energy companies say they will be able to generate cheaper electricity, long the main selling point of the industry. In 1954, when the Atomic Energy Commission was formed, its first chairman, Lewis Strauss, said nuclear power would provide energy "too cheap to meter."

Louis Aston Knight A Bend in the River painting

Louis Aston Knight A Bend in the River painting
Albert Bierstadt Autumn in America Oneida County New York painting
fire with Ford this week as well, announcing Monday that it would sever its ties to the automaker."We believe they [Ford] are attempting to divert scrutiny of their vehicle by casting doubt on the quality of Firestone tires," Bridegstone/Firestone CEO John Lampe said on Monday. Firestone's Future That widespread doubts about Firestone exist is borne out by statistics showing the tire company's profits were down sharply in 2000 after last summer's initial recall of 6.5 million defective tires.But Ford's decision involves twice as many total tires, and the impact on Firestone's bottom line could be proportionately bigger in 2001 — and beyond, since the two companies ended their 95-year-old relationship this week."Firestone is struggling for survival," says Keith Crain of Crain's Automotive News. "The brand is at risk right now."

Andrew Atroshenko Bold Expression painting

Andrew Atroshenko Bold Expression painting
Gustav Klimt lady with fan I painting
]Another invention that merited the Discover award was a land-mine detection device crafted by researchers at the U.S. Pacific Northwest Laboratories. It looks like a weed trimmer used by many landscapers to cut grass. But this device is equipped with a sensor that uses small amount of radioactive material to detect the presence of hydrogen — a common element in land-mine explosives.Petranek notes that it can even find mines made of hard-to-detect plastic. And with an estimated 110 million land mines buried worldwide, “this will save the more than 70 people a day who are dying from land mines,” he said. All 2001 Innovation Award honorees received $5,000 for their inventions and will be featured in the July issue of Discover. But Pacific Northwest Labs’ mine detector also got the nod — and $10,000 — from the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, an independent federal government agency established to encourage and support new discoveries.

Steve Hanks paintings

Steve Hanks paintings
Salvador Dali paintings
university, Monterey Bay Research Institute, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, Canada's Institute for Pacific Ocean Science and Technology, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The cables will provide electric power and communications to sensors spread all over the plate, which is bigger than the state of Washington, as well as about 70,000 square miles of ocean bottom surrounding the plate. Tiny subs will zip back and forth between about 30 sites more than a mile under the surface where experiments can be conducted.The experiments will seek to determine how some organisms survive without sunlight under intense pressures, and even in environments that would poison nearly all other forms of life. This part of the project got a boost recently with a $5 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles.

Benjamin Williams Leader paintings

Benjamin Williams Leader paintings
Bartolome Esteban Murillo paintings
pager-sized device allows caregivers and parents to monitor the health and whereabouts of seniors and children through the use of space-based Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites."In the migration path, those two products that can be bundled together," says Bolton. The resulting product would be about the size of an American quarter coin and offer an improved way of monitoring patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease, for example.Safety Against Terrorists?And the interest in testing embedded chips has been steadily increasing — especially since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.Dr. Richard Seelig, a former surgeon but now a medical consultant for ADS, became the first to embed a VeriChip in his arm and hip on Sept. 16. He says his decision to become a willing guinea pig came when he saw World

Children painting

Children painting
Christ painting
Another great save by Marcos denied Wilmots, who’s curling left-foot shot seemed destined for the net before the goalkeeper just tipped (63’).　　Brazil finally got their breakthrough following a great piece of skill by Rivaldo. Ronaldinho sent a ball into the middle, which Rivaldo controlled with his chest and a deft flick. His wicked shot was slightly deflected into the goal (1:0, 67’).　　Belgium pushed for an equalizer and had a great chance when Bart Goor sneaked in at the back post. However, he just couldn’t manage to direct the bounding ball into the exposed Brazilian net (73’).　　Wesley Sonck had the next chance to equalise, but his left-footer from 16 metres was smothered well by Marcos (80’).　　With Belgium sending people forward and dominating possession, they were always going to be at risk on the break. Second-half substitute Kleberson broke down the right and found an on-rushing Ronaldo, who finished

church painting

church painting
City painting
Heihei (alias "Tyson") is from Heilongjiang Province and Guigui is from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The match looks interesting and exciting but both boxers won't fight according to the Marquess of Queensberry rules. They never listen to the referee.Sea lions are skilled ball players in the water. But even an excellent player can sometimes make a mistake. When a sea lion misses a ball, it puts its "hands" to its face as if ashamed of the missed shot. 　　If spectators are brave enough to accept a kiss from a sea lion, they can have their picture taken with the creature. 　　The organizers also invite the audience to compete with another star of the "Games" in a game of tug-of-war. Their opponent will be an elephant. 　　But even 20 strong men won't be a match for this elephant. Just by using its trunk, it can pull all comers to the ground. 　　The sports meeting starts at about 10:00am each day and the "Games" will run to October 20.

John Collier Lady Godiva painting

John Collier Lady Godiva painting
Avtandil The Grand Opera painting
After intensive treatment, Natasha's condition stabilized. When she was released from the clinic, Natasha began walking upright. "I've never seen or heard of this before," said Horowitz. One possible explanation is brain damage from the illness, he said. Otherwise, Horowitz said, Natasha's behavior has returned to normal
The international Cassini spacecraft sent back a natural-color image of Saturn showing the planet's rings are shades of pink, gray and a bit of brown.The image was taken a few days before the spacecraft ...
The international Cassini spacecraft sent back a natural-color image of Saturn showing the planet's rings are shades of pink, gray and a bit of brown.The image was taken a few days before the spacecraft entered orbit, from 4 million miles below the rings. The rings are mostly ice, which is white if it is pure. Researchers at NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory believe the different colors reflect the presence of other

Tamara de Lempicka Sketch of Madame Allan Bott painting

Tamara de Lempicka Sketch of Madame Allan Bott painting
Thomas Cole The Hunter's Return painting
Almost 1.1 million students in US were home-schooled last year, a 29 percent increase since the last government survey in 1999. The growth comes as more parents, frustrated with traditional schools and limits on curriculum, say they would rather handle lessons themselves. Parents offered two main reasons for choosing home schooling: 31 percent cited concerns about the environment of regular schools, such as drugs, lack of safety and negative peer pressure; 30 percent wanted the flexibility to teach religious or moral lessons. Sixteen percent said they were dissatisfied with academic instruction at other schools. However, home schooling still presents several questions that must be considered, said Ted Feinberg, assistant executive director of the National Association of School Psychologists.

Eric Wallis paintings

Eric Wallis paintings
Edmund Blair Leighton paintings
Now the state of Texas is sending that message for them.Last week, the Texas House of Representatives passed a bill that would prohibit "sexually suggestive" cheerleading and drill-team routines in public schools. The bill has garnered plenty of national attention, but likely won't become law in Texas because it has no sponsor in the Senate.Still, that fact has not put an end to the debate about what is considered lewd or provocative behavior and who is responsible for monitoring it. Few people have missed the irony that the state of Texas, which shocked America when its Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders shed their pompoms for go-go boots and short shorts more than 30 years ago, is now trying to legislate morality on the sidelines.

canvas painting

canvas painting
contemporary abstract painting
someone she loved and used to spend a lot of time with, she would feel angry and hurt and might try to get even, not only to punish her companion but to try to persuade him or her to return. (to be continued)This has been adapted from Katz on Dogs, which is being published this week.
Lots of dogs get nervous when they don't know what's expected of them, and when they get anxious, they can also grow restless. Blue hadn't had to occupy time alone before.
Dogs can get unnerved by this. They bark, chew, scratch, destroy. Getting yelled at and punished later doesn't help: The dog probably knows it's doing something wrong, but it has no idea what. Since there's nobody around to correct behaviors when the dog is alone, how could the dog know which behavior is the problem? Which action was wrong? He made sense to me. Dogs are not aware of time, even as a concept, so Blue couldn't know whether she was being left for five minutes or five hours,

Flamenco Dancer dance series painting

Flamenco Dancer dance series painting
Jules Joseph Lefebvre Mary Magdalene In The Cave painting
some more", she answered barely audibly.
"Well, what a coincidence," smiled the man. "A dollar and eleven cents - the exact price of a miracle for little brothers."
He took her money in one hand and held her hand with the other. He said, "Take me to where you live. I want to see your brother and meet your parents. Let‘s see if I have the kind of miracle you need."
That well-dressed man was Dr Carlton Armstrong, a surgeon, specializing in neuro-surgery. The operation was completed without charge and it wasn‘t long before Andrew was home again and doing well.
"That surgery," her mom whispered, "was a real miracle. I wonder how much it would have cost?"
The little girl smiled. She knew exactly how much the miracle cost ... one dollar and eleven cents ... plus the faith of a little child.
Perseverance can make miracles happen!

Don Li-Leger paintings

Don Li-Leger paintings
David Hardy paintings
a gentleman? I don't quite know, and yet I have had to do with niggers - no, I'll scratch that word "niggers" out, for I don't like it. I've known natives who are, and so you'll say, Harry, my boy, before you're done with this tale, and I have known mean whites with lots of money and fresh out from home, too, who ain't. Well, at any rate I was born a gentleman, though I've been nothing but a poor travelling trader and hunter all my life. Whether I have remained so I know not; you must judge of that. Heaven knows I've tried. I've killed many men in my time, but I have never slain wantonly or stained my hand in innocent blood, only in self-defence. The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose he meant us to defend them; at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it won't be brought up against me when my clock strikes. There, there; it is a cruel and a wicked world, and, for a timid man, I have been mixed up in a deal of slaughter. I can't tell the rights of it, but at any rate I have never stolen, though I once cheated a Kaffir out of a herd of cattle. But then, he had done me a dirty turn, and it has troubled me ever since into the bargain.
Well, it's eighteen months or so ago since I first met Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good, and it was in this way. I had been up elephant hunting beyond Bamangwato, and had had bad luck. Everything went

Albert Bierstadt Buffalo Country painting

Albert Bierstadt Buffalo Country painting
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Ingres The Source painting
don't think you've any right to put such a responsibility on her. She has enough to bear. She is poor--how could she afford such an operation?"
"That is for her to decide," persisted Gilbert stubbornly.
"You say you think that Dick can be cured. But are you sure of it?"
"Certainly not. Nobody could be sure of such a thing. There may have been lesions of the brain itself, the effect of which can never be removed. But if, as I believe, his loss of memory and other faculties is due merely to the pressure on the brain centers of certain depressed areas of bone, then he can be cured."
"But it's only a possibility!" insisted Anne. "Now, suppose you tell Leslie have the operation. It will cost a great deal. She will have to borrow the money, or sell her little property. And suppose the operation is a failure and Dick remains the same.

Eduard Manet Flowers In A Crystal Vase painting

Eduard Manet Flowers In A Crystal Vase painting
Leon Bazile Perrault A Water Nymph painting
How will she be able to pay back the money she borrows, or make a living for herself and that big helpless creature if she sells the farm?"
"Oh, I know--I know. But it is my duty to tell her. I can't get away from that conviction."
"Oh, I know the Blythe stubbornness," groaned Anne. "But don't do this solely on your own responsibility. Consult Doctor Dave."
"I have done so," said Gilbert reluctantly.
"And what did he say?"
"In brief--as you say--leave well enough alone. Apart from his prejudice against new-fangled surgery, I'm afraid he looks at the case from your point of view--don't do it, for Leslie's sake."
"There now," cried Anne triumphantly. "I do think, Gilbert, that you ought

Pino pino_color painting

Pino pino_color painting
Claude Monet The Shoot painting
learn to like it. When we got the organ up at the Glen church old Elder Richards bounced up from his seat the minute the organist began to play and scuttled down the aisle and out of the church at the rate of no-man's-business. It reminded me so strong of the First Mate tearing loose as soon as I begin to fiddle that I come nearer to laughing out loud in church than I ever did before or since."
There was something so infectious in the rollicking tunes which Captain Jim played that very soon Marshall Elliott's feet began to twitch. He had been a noted dancer in his youth. Presently he started up and held out his hands to Leslie. Instantly she responded. Round and round the firelit room they circled with a rhythmic grace that was wonderful. Leslie danced like one inspired; the wild, sweet abandon of the music seemed to have entered into and possessed her. Anne watched her in fascinated admiration. She had never seen her like this. All the innate richness and color and charm of her nature seemed to have broken loose and overflowed in crimson cheek and glowing eye and grace of motion. Even the aspect of Marshall Elliott, with his long beard and hair

Philip Craig paintings

Philip Craig paintings
Paul McCormack paintings
care for, that is. I reckon he was hungry, for he made about two bites of it. I had a fine sleep the rest of the night but my dinner had to be sorter scanty--potatoes and point, as you might say. The dog, he lit out for home this morning. I reckon he weren't a vegetarian."
"The idea of starving yourself for a worthless dog!" sniffed Mrs. Doctor.
"You don't know but he may be worth a lot to somebody," protested Captain Jim. "He didn't look of much account, but you can't go by looks in jedging a dog. Like meself, he might be a real beauty inside. The First Mate didn't approve of him, I'll allow. His language was right down forcible. But the First Mate is prejudiced. No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog. 'Tennyrate, I lost my dinner, so this nice spread in this dee-lightful company is real pleasant. It' s a great thing to have good neighbors."
"Who lives in the house among the willows up the brook?" asked

Jose Royo paintings

Jose Royo paintings
Juarez Machado paintings
to you in my will, because you seemed to have sincere affection for them. But Maria and I expect to live a good while yet (D.V.), so I have decided to give you the dogs while you are young. You will not have forgotten that Gog looks to the right and Magog to the left."
"Just fancy those lovely old dogs sitting by the fireplace in my house of dreams," said Anne rapturously. "I never expected anything so delightful."
That evening Green Gables hummed with preparations for the following day; but in the twilight Anne slipped away. She had a little pilgrimage to make on this last day of her girlhood and she must make it alone. She went to Matthew's grave, in the little poplar-shaded Avonlea graveyard, and there kept a silent tryst with old memories and immortal loves.
"How glad Matthew would be tomorrow if he were here," she whispered. "But I believe he does

Allan R.Banks paintings

Allan R.Banks paintings
Andrea Mantegna paintings
I've come up to ask you to go for one of our old-time rambles through September woods and `over hills where spices grow,' this afternoon," said Gilbert, coming suddenly around the porch corner. "Suppose we visit Hester Gray's garden."
Anne, sitting on the stone step with her lap full of a pale, filmy, green stuff, looked up rather blankly.
"Oh, I wish I could," she said slowly, "but I really can't, Gilbert. I'm going to Alice Penhallow's wedding this evening, you know. I've got to do something to this dress, and by the time it's finished I'll have to get ready. I'm so sorry. I'd love to go."
"Well, can you go tomorrow afternoon

Jacques-Louis David Male Nude known as Patroclus painting

Jacques-Louis David Male Nude known as Patroclus painting
Claude Monet Regatta At Argenteuil painting
Horace Vernet The Lion Hunt painting
Sartin I kin, if she don't mind being scrunched up some. This rig of mine's kinder small for the mail bags and I'm some heftier than Thomas!' Just wait, miss, till I shift these bags a bit and I'll tuck you in somehow. It's only two miles to Janet's. Her next-door neighbor's hired boy is coming for your trunk tonight. My name is Skinner -- Amelia Skinner."
Anne was eventually tucked in, exchanging amused smiles with herself during the process.
"Jog along, black mare," commanded Mrs. Skinner, gathering up the reins in her pudgy hands. "This is my first trip on the mail rowte. Thomas wanted to hoe his turnips today so he asked me to come. So I jest sot down and took a standing-up snack and started. I sorter like it. O' course it's rather tejus. Part of the time I sits and thinks and the rest I jest sits. Jog along, black mare. I want to git home airly. Thomas is terrible lonesome when I'm away. You see, we haven't been married very long."
"Oh!" said Anne politely.
"Just a month. Thomas courted me for quite a spell, though. It was real romantic." Anne tried to picture Mrs. Skinner on speaking terms with romance and failed.
"Oh?" she said again.

Eric Wallis Undressing painting

Eric Wallis Undressing painting
Flamenco Dancer dance series painting
insignificant that I thought I must be invisible to the naked eye. Jonas never said a word about women and he never looked at me. But I realized then and there what a pitiful, frivilous, small-souled little butterfly I was, and how horribly different I must be from Jonas' ideal woman. SHE would be grand and strong and noble. He was so earnest and tender and true. He was everything a minister ought to be. I wondered how I could ever have thought him ugly -- but he really is! -- with those inspired eyes and that intellectual brow which the roughly-falling hair hid on week days.
"It was a splendid sermon and I could have listened to it forever, and it made me feel utterly wretched. Oh, I wish I was like YOU, Anne.
"He caught up with me on the road home, and grinned as cheerfully as usual. But his grin could never deceive me again. I had seen the REAL Jonas. I wondered if he could ever see the REAL PHIL -- whom NOBODY, not even you, Anne, has ever seen yet.
"`Jonas,' I said -- I forgot to call him Mr. Blake. Wasn't it dreadful?

Thomas Kinkade NASCAR THUNDER painting

Thomas Kinkade NASCAR THUNDER painting
Vladimir Volegov Beauty painting
Can't a man laugh and laugh and be a Christian still?" demanded Phil.
"Oh, MEN -- yes. But I was speaking of MINISTERS, my dear," said Aunt Jamesina rebukingly." And you shouldn't flirt so with Mr. Blake -- you really shouldn't."
"I'm not flirting with him," protested Phil.
Nobody believed her, except Anne. The others thought she was amusing herself as usual, and told her roundly that she was behaving very badly.
"Mr. Blake isn't of the Alec-and-Alonzo type, Phil," said Stella severely. "He takes things seriously. You may break his heart."
"Do you really think I could?" asked Phil. "I'd love to think so."
"Philippa Gordon! I never thought you were utterly unfeeling. The idea of you saying you'd

John William Waterhouse The Lady of Shalott painting

John William Waterhouse The Lady of Shalott painting
Claude Monet Water Lily Pond painting
SAY IT!"
Davy gave her another incredulous look, then in a low voice he said the dreadful word. The next minute his face was burrowing against her.
"Oh, Anne, I'll never say it again -- never. I'll never WANT to say it again. I knew it was bad, but I didn't s'pose it was so -- so -- I didn't s'pose it was like THAT."
"No, I don't think you'll ever want to say it again, Davy -- or think it, either. And I wouldn't go about much with Mr. Harrison's hired boy if I were you."
"He can make bully war-whoops," said Davy a little regretfully.
"But you don't want your mind filled with bad words, do you, Davy -- words that will poison it and drive out all that is good and manly?"
"No," said Davy, owl-eyed with introspection.
"Then don't go with those people who use them. And now do you feel as if you could say your prayers, Davy?"
"Oh, yes," said Davy, eagerly wriggling down on his knees, "I can say them now all right

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Andrew Atroshenko The Passion of Music painting
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that she is doing it to rub it well into you that you haven't half so many. Now, when Phil talks of her beaux it sounds as if she was just speaking of chums. She really looks upon boys as good comrades, and she is pleased when she has dozens of them tagging round, simply because she likes to be popular and to be thought popular. Even Alex and Alonzo -- I'll never be able to think of those two names separately after this -- are to her just two playfellows who want her to play with them all their lives. I'm glad we met her, and I'm glad we went to Old St. John's. I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted." and it WOULD be a comfort to have a nose in the family that could be depended on. I can't depend on mine. So far, it takes after the Gordon pattern, but I'm so afraid it will develop Byrne tendencies as I grow older. I examine it every day anxiously to make sure it's still Gordon. Mother was they really do. But there were only two that mattered. The rest were all too young and too poor. I must marry a rich man, you know."
"Why must you?"

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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres paintings
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Emily had learned some lessons about getting along with a man. So she's here and she's going to stay. . .seeing that Ginger's dead and the Island's some bigger than she thought. There's Mrs. Lynde and her now. No, don't go, Anne. Stay and get acquainted with Emily. She took quite a notion to you Saturday. . . wanted to know who that handsome redhaired girl was at the next house."
Mrs. Harrison welcomed Anne radiantly and insisted on her staying to tea.
"James A. has been telling me all about you and how kind you've been, making cakes and things for him," she said. "I want to get acquainted with all my new neighbors just as soon as possible. Mrs. Lynde is a lovely woman, isn't she? So friendly."
When Anne went home in the sweet June dusk, Mrs. Harrison went with her

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Fra Angelico paintings
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the deafening thunder peals. Anne, white as paper, had dragged the sofa away from the window and sat on it with a twin on either side. Davy at the first crash had howled, "Anne, Anne, is it the Judgment Day? Anne, Anne, I never meant to be naughty," and then had buried his face in Anne's lap and kept it there, his little body quivering. Dora, somewhat pale but quite composed, sat with her hand clasped in Anne's, quiet and motionless. It is doubtful if an earthquake would have disturbed Dora.
Then, almost as suddenly as it began, the storm ceased. The hail stopped, the thunder rolled and muttered away to the eastward, and the sun burst out merry and radiant over a world so changed that it seemed an absurd thing to think that a scant three quarters of an hour could have effected such a transformation.
Marilla rose from her knees, weak and trembling, and dropped on her rocker. Her face was haggard and she looked ten years older.
"Have we all come out of that alive?" she asked solemnly.

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David Hardy paintings
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Maybe if you didn't pull your plants up by the roots every other day to see how they're getting on `at the other end,' they'd do better," said Marilla sarcastically.
"I only pulled six of them up," protested Davy. "I wanted to see if there was grubs at the roots. Milty Boulter said if it wasn't the moon's fault it must be grubs. But I only found one grub. He was a great big juicy curly grub. I put him on a stone and got another stone and smashed him flat. He made a jolly squish I tell you. I was sorry there wasn't more of them. Dora's garden was planted same time's mine and her things are growing all right. It can't be the moon," Davy concluded in a reflective tone.
"Marilla, look at that apple tree," said Anne." Why, the thing is human. It is reaching out long arms to pick its own pink skirts daintily up and provoke us to admiration."
"Those Yellow Duchess trees always bear well," said Marilla complacently. "That tree'll be loaded this year. I'm real glad. . .they're great for pies."

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Alphonse Maria Mucha paintings
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and romantic. Isn't this candy scrumptious? I've eaten far more than is good for me already but I'm going to keep recklessly on."
After a little silence Miss Lavendar said abruptly,
"It gave me a shock to hear about Stephen's son that first day you were here, Anne. I've never been able to mention him to you since, but I've wanted to know all about him. What sort of a boy is he?"
"He is the dearest, sweetest child I ever knew, Miss Lavendar. . . and he pretends things too, just as you and I do."
"I'd like to see him," said Miss Lavendar softly, as if talking to herself. "I wonder if he looks anything like the little dream-boy who lives here with me. . .my little dream-boy."
"If you would like to see Paul I'll bring him through with me sometime," said Anne.

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to be eating that jam, when you were told never to meddle with anything in that closet?"
"Yes, I knew it was wrong," admitted Davy uncomfortably, "but plum jam is awful nice, Anne. I just peeped in and it looked so good I thought I'd take just a weeny taste. I stuck my finger in. . ." Anne groaned. . ."and licked it clean. And it was so much gooder than I'd ever thought that I got a spoon and just sailed in."
Anne gave him such a serious lecture on the sin of stealing plum jam that Davy became conscience stricken and promised with repentant kisses never to do it again.
"Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort," he said complacentlyAnne nipped a smile in the bud.
"Perhaps there will. . .if we want it," she said, "But what makes you think so?"
"Why, it's in the catechism," said Davy.
"Oh, no, there is nothing like that in the catechism, Davy."

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John William Waterhouse Gather ye rosebuds while ye may painting
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Neither I did," avowed Davy solemnly.
"She must be somewhere around," said Anne. "She would never wander far away alone. . .you know how timid she is. Perhaps she has fallen asleep in one of the rooms."
Marilla shook her head.
"I've hunted the whole house through. But she may be in some of the buildings."
A thorough search followed. Every corner of house, yard, and outbuildings was ransacked by those two distracted people. Anne roved the orchards and the Haunted Wood, calling Dora's name. Marilla took a candle and explored the cellar. Davy accompanied each of them in turn, and was fertile in thinking of places where Dora could possibly be. Finally they met again in the yard.
"It's a most mysterious thing," groaned Marilla.

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Andrew Atroshenko Bold Expression painting
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breathlessly to Green Gables, joined on the way by Fred Wright. They found Diana Barry, Jane Andrews, and Anne Shirley, despair personified, at the yard gate of Green Gables, under the big leafless willows.
"It isn't true surely, Anne?" exclaimed Gilbert.
"It is true," answered Anne, looking like the muse of tragedy. "Mrs. Lynde called on her way from Carmody to tell me. Oh, it is simply dreadful! What is the use of trying to improve anything?"
"What is dreadful?" asked Oliver Sloane, arriving at this moment with a bandbox he had brought from town for Marilla.
"Haven't you heard?" said Jane wrathfully. "Well, its simply this. . .Joshua Pye has gone and painted the hall blue instead of green. . .a deep, brilliant blue, the shade they use for painting carts and wheelbarrows. And Mrs. Lynde says it is the most hideous color for a building, especially when combined with a red roof, that she ever saw or imagined. You could simply have knocked me down with a feather when I heard it. It's heartbreaking

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Anne had said,
"If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!"
"I believe he did," admitted Marilla. "I was away. He gave Anne a piece of his mind."
"I think he is a very disagreeable man," said Anne, with a resentful toss of her ruddy head.
"You never said a truer word," said Mrs. Rachel solemnly. "I knew there'd be trouble when Robert Bell sold his place to a New Brunswick man, that's what. I don't know what Avonlea is coming to, with so many strange people rushing into it. It'll soon not be safe to go to sleep in our beds."
"Why, what other strangers are coming in?" asked Marilla.
"Haven't you heard? Well, there's a family of Donnells, for one thing. They've rented Peter Sloane's old house.