Monday, 2 June 2008

Cole The Hunter's Return painting

Cole The Hunter's Return painting
Church North Lake painting
Church Landscape in the Adirondacks painting
Chase After the Rain painting
It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look forth on the world. But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged
-81-to the family vault? He shivered a little, remembering some of the new ideas in his scientific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave-fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no use for them. What if, when he had bidden May Welland to open hers, they could only look out blankly at blankness?
``We might be much better off. We might be altogether together -- we might travel.''
Her face lit up. ``That would be lovely,'' she owned: she would love to travel. But her mother would not understand their wanting to do things so differently.
``As if the mere `differently' didn't account for it!'' the wooer insisted.
``Newland! You're so original!'' she exulted.
His heart sank, for he saw that he was saying all the things that young men in the same situation were expected to say, and that she was making the answers that instinct and tradition taught her to make -- even to the point of calling him original.

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