Amedeo Modigliani Caryatid 1 painting

Amedeo Modigliani Caryatid 1 paintingAlphonse Maria Mucha Summer paintingAlphonse Maria Mucha Spring painting
Yours sincerely,
Albus Dumbledore
P.S. I enjoy Acid Pops.
"He enjoys Acid Pops?" said Ron, who had read the message over Harry's shoulder and was looking perplexed.
"It's the password to get past the gargoyle outside his study," said Harry in a low voice. "Ha! Snape's not going to be pleased. . . . I won't be able to do his detention!"
He, Ron, and Hermione spent the whole of break speculating on what Dumbledore would teach Harry. Ron thought it most likely to be spectacular jinxes and hexes of the type the Death Eaters would not know. Hermione said such things were illegal, and thought it much more likely that Dumbledore wanted to teach Harry advanced Defensive magic. After break, she went off to Arithmancy while Harry and

Lord Frederick Leighton Daedalus and Icarus painting

Lord Frederick Leighton Daedalus and Icarus paintingLord Frederick Leighton Actaea the Nymph of the Shore paintingJean Auguste Dominique Ingres La Grande baigneuse painting
Ron looked a little uncomfortable and began playing with the Fanged Frisbee Hermione had taken from the fourth-year student. It zoomed around the common room, snarling and attempting to take bites of the tapestry. Crookshanks's yellow eyes followed it and he hissed when it came too close.
An hour later they reluctantly left the sunlit common room for the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom four floors below. Hermione was already queuing outside, carrying an armful of heavy books and looking put-upon.
"We got so much work for Runes," she said anxiously when Harry and Ron joined her. "A fifteen-inch essay, two translations, and I've got to read these by Wednesday!"
"Shame," yawned Ron.

Andrew Atroshenko What a Wonderful Life painting

Andrew Atroshenko What a Wonderful Life painting
Andrew Atroshenko Just for Love painting
Those whose clothes are a bit roomy, I've got smaller here," said Moody, indicating the first sack, "and vice versa. Don't forget the glasses, there's six pairs in the side pocket. And when you're dressed, there's luggage in the other sack."

　　　The real Harry thought that this might just be the most bizarre thing he had ever seen, and he had seen some extremely odd things. He watched as his six doppelgangers rummaged in the sacks, pulling out sets of clothes, putting on glasses, stuffing their own things away. He felt like asking them to show a little more respect for privacy as they all began stripping off with impunity, clearly more at ease with displaying his body than they would have been with their own.

Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Painting

Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Painting
Rembrandt Rembrandt night watch painting
　Harry ran back upstairs to his bedroom, arriving at the window just in time to see the Dursleys' car swinging out of the drive and off up the road. Dedalus's top hat was visible between Aunt Petunia and Dudley in the backseat. The car turned right at the end of Privet Drive, its windows burned scarlet for a moment in the now setting sun, and then it was gone.

　　　Harry picked up Hedwig's cage, his Firebolt, and his rucksack, gave his unnaturally tidy bedroom one last sweeping look, and then made his ungainly way back downstairs to the hall, where he deposited cage, broomstick, and bag

Arthur Hughes La Belle Dame Sans Merci painting

Arthur Hughes La Belle Dame Sans Merci painting
Albert Bierstadt Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains California painting
handlebars, Harry could see nothing but distant lights growing nearer and nearer: He was going to crash and there was nothing he could do about it. Behind him came another scream, "Your wand, Selwyn, give me your wand!"

　　　He felt Voldemort before he saw him. Looking sideways, he stared into the red eyes and was sure they would be the last thing he ever saw: Voldemort preparing to curse him once more –

　　　And then Voldemort vanished. Harry looked down and saw Hagrid spread-eagled on the ground below him. He pulled hard at the handlebars to avoid hitting him, groped for the brake, but with an earsplitting, ground trembling crash, he smashed into a muddy pond.

Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night painting

Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night painting
Frank Dicksee La Belle Dame Sans Merci painting

Abstract:
Background Acute renal failure (ARF) after liver transplantation is associated with high mortality and morbidity. Early therapeutic or preventive intervention is hampered by the lack of early effective prognostic factors. Recent studies indicated that serum levels of cystatin C and β2-microglobulin (β2 MG) as well as urinary β2 MG and N-acetyl-β-D- glucosaminidase (NAG) would increase in patients with early and mild renal impairment. In this study, these factors were detected during the different stages in patients who accepted orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT), and their feasibilities to predict early ARF after OLT were also analyzed. Methods Sixty patients with normal blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and serum creatinine (SCr) who received modified piggyback liver transplantation without veno-venous bypass were prospectively studied. Blood samples were drawn from patients for the determination of serum β2 MG(n=60), SCr (n=60) and serum

Gustav Klimt The Kiss painting

Gustav Klimt The Kiss painting
Gustav Klimt Sea Serpents painting
powerful man in Cuba. And yet, even though Ambassador Smith and Ambassador Gardner, both Republican ambassadors, both warned of Castro, the Marxist influences around' Castro, the Communist influences around Castro, both of them have testified in the last six weeks that in spite of their warnings to the American government, nothing was done.Our security depends upon Latin America. Can any American looking at the situation in Latin America feel content with what's happening today? When a candidate for the Presidency of Brazil feels it's necessary to call, not on Washington during the campaign, but on Castro and Havana, in order to pick up the support of the Castro supporters in Brazil? At the American conference and Intra-Americas conference this summer, when we wanted them to

Claude Monet Venice Twilight painting

Claude Monet Venice Twilight painting
Alphonse Maria Mucha The Judgement of Paris painting
successor, Vice-President Hosni Mubarak, 52, was expected to continue the same domestic and foreign policies. Like Sadat, Mubarak has the strong backing of the Egyptian military. It was Muabrak who announced Sadat’s death to the nation in a dramatic television appearance seven hours after the incident. He declared a year-long state emergency.According to Egyptian army officials, an army lieutenant and four enlisted men staged the attacked that transformed a hot, sunny day of military muscle-flexing into a nightmare of thousands crowded into a massive concrete stadium. The attackers shouted, “Glory to Egypt! Attack! You are agents! You are intruders!” at the large crowd of dignitaries.

Claude Monet Impression Sunrise painting

Claude Monet Impression Sunrise painting
Claude Monet Argenteuil painting

Miss Hawaii Angela Perez Baraquio, an elementary school gym teacher, was crowned Miss America 2001 on Saturday night. The 24-year-old said she plans to promote character education during her yearlong reign.
Baraquio gasped when co-host Donny Osmond announced her name, and then hugged first runner-up Miss Louisiana Faith Jenkins before ducking down to receive the crown and begin the traditional runway walk. A devout Catholic, she said she prayed before each part of the competition. “I’m not one to wear my faith on my sleeve. What I do is, I try to live it,” she said. In addition to teaching at a Catholic elementary school in Honolulu, Baraquio is the school’s athletic director and coaches basketball, volleyball and track. She said she wants to obtain a master’s degree in educational foundations and eventually become a school administrator.

William Bouguereau Love Takes Flight painting

William Bouguereau Love Takes Flight painting
Turner The Grand Canal Venice 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.

Godward Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder painting

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

A young Russian, Alexander, reads the magazine Khaker at home in Moscow. Russia has a reputation as home to some of the world's most inventive and devious hackers, who are called "khakeri" and "vzlomshchiki."
MOSCOW, Nov. 20 — While the international space station brings new renown to Russia, the nation is gaining a darker sort of notice from other explorers — hackers who launch into cyberspace.Russia's reputation as home to some of the world's most gifted and devious hackers was underscored last month when Microsoft Corp. disclosed that passwords used to access its coveted source code had been sent from the company network to an e-mail address in St. Petersburg.

Frederic Edwin Church Landscape in the Adirondacks painting

Frederic Edwin Church Landscape in the Adirondacks painting
Pierre Auguste Renoir The Boating Party Lunch I painting
Some spectacular selloffs this month, including the Nasdaq's seventh consecutive decline Dec. 13, haven't helped — although they may make it likely the market will have to snap back at least a little bit."The way the market's going down, I'd say we should see a bump up. But will it go down again? That's still the question," said Yale Hirsch, author of the Stock Trader's Almanac, who believes the market is so oversold and stock prices so low that it may be especially attractive to bargain hunters and other buyers."One of the reasons I believe we could rally in the next few weeks is we're getting a lot of bad news, and — what is the saying — you're supposed to buy on bad news and sell on good news."Most market observers say it will take an interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve to turn the stock market around. The Fed doesn't meet until Jan. 30-31, and any action before then would be extraordinary. A couple of other January events could also prove key.

Caravaggio paintings

Caravaggio paintings
Claude Lorrain paintings
December and promised to clean out the sales channel, which had swollen to hold some 11 weeks of inventory. "These are price points pretty similar to what Apple did in July when they cleared out the previous models. I think these will move the channels out of what they need to be moved out of," Ostrander said. He said the sales channel looked a bit slimmer than last month, with iMacs in relatively good shape, but Cubes in excess of supply. "The way we look at this is Apple usuall
One in 10 children suffers from mental illness, which often is untreated and leaves them vulnerable to a future life of problems and delinquency, the surgeon general says.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 — One in 10 children suffers from mental illnesses severe enough to impair development, the surgeon general said in urging changes to fix what he termed a crisisy announces this after they announce new products. It looks like they are clearing the product prior to Macworld, which if I had to guess means that products will be immediately available after Macworld."

Music painting

Music painting
Nude painting
French superstar Zinedine Zidane one of the world's highest paid soccer players was appointed goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Development Program Monday, with the aim of cutting poverty."I've known hard times, too," said Zidane, who had a modest, often difficult, upbringing. "I know what (poverty) is. I, too, lived in difficult places where we didn't have everything. And today I want to help."I will push myself to work hard, to make sure I'm present and to do some good with my image and what I represent."Nearly one in five people some 1.2 billion men, women and children lives in extreme poverty, subsisting on less than a dollar a day, according to UNDP. Half the world struggles on less than two dollars a day.

Dirck Bouts paintings

Dirck Bouts paintings
Dante Gabriel Rossetti paintings
One person who did know of his scheduled stop was Penélope Cruz, who told Entertainment Tonight, "You'll see him yourself later," when asked about her Vanilla Sky co-star. Cruise, sporting a new haircut for his film Minority Report, wasn't dressed for the occasion, wearing just a blue suit with no tie. Archerd reports that Cruise, who skipped the red carpet, ducked out immediately afterwards, thereby avoiding the press coming and going. Russell's Mystery DateThe blond woman with Russell Crowe, who trailed the Best Actor-to-be at a discreet distance on the red carpet and gave him a smooch when he won his award, turned out to be an old girlfriend of his. Her name is Danielle Spencer, and, according to the Crowe-endorsed fan site Maximumcrowe.com, they dated

Claude Monet Train In The Country painting

Claude Monet Train In The Country painting
Claude Monet Sunset painting
Mass-produced reactor technology and quicker licensing could be what the industry needs to start building again. In recent years, the industry has seen waves of consolidation, as companies have discovered the logic of running multiple nuclear plants: Capital investments like infrastructure, staff and emergency preparedness grow relatively smaller.But construction has been nonexistent. So far, Chicago-based Exelon, the biggest player in the nuclear power business, is the only company to tell the NRC it intends to file a license application for a new plant at some point in 2002.In turn, Exelon, which was formed from the merger of Unicom and PECO Energy and operates 17 reactors at 10 plants, mostly in Illinois, is pinning its future

Claude Monet The Picnic painting

Claude Monet The Picnic painting
Pino day dream painting
second, Alexander Tanov, was the “card maker” who had turned his bedroom into a credit card factory.Tanov’s equipment was capable of producing near perfect replicas of American Express, Visa and MasterCard credit cards. Police found 500 credit card details on his computer — only one in five had been taken from cards issued by British banks, the rest had been lifted from cards issued in the United States and Europe.At the time of the arrests, police found evidence of fraud totaling $300,000. Had the Russians been left to continue, authorities believe the operation would have resulted in losses of $7 million. 'It Is a Global Problem'According to Tim Parsons of the City of London Police, organized crime gangs from the Continent and Eastern Europe, Asia, Russia and Africa, are targeting central London because of the thousands of people who visit daily. “Tourists areas are especially being hit because they tend

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

— Who says scientists develop only geeky stuff? Certainly not the editors of Discover magazine.Lifesaving and Fun Inventions Garner Awards are honored to nine researchers.
The magazine’s editors honored nine researchers for developing cutting-edge technologies in fields such as communications, aerospace, health and transportation. While some winning projects may seem to be pure rocket science, Stephen Petranek, editor in chief of Discover, says all of them will change people's lives. And some are just plain fun.MagicBook, for example, is a device that has both serious medical applications and the potential for high-tech entertainment, Petranek told ABCNEWS' Good Morning America. Following Alice Through the Hole

Alexei Alexeivich Harlamoff paintings

Alexei Alexeivich Harlamoff paintings
Aubrey Beardsley paintings
So a consortium of universities, led by Texas A&M, is using a 10-foot-tall, 1-ton robotic device to study the deeper regions of the Gulf of Mexico before oil drilling begins there."Oil companies have been drilling on the continental shelf of the Gulf for the past 50 years," says Gilbert T. Rowe, a Texas A&M oceanography professor and head of the project. But technology now makes it possible to drill in deeper water and there is great concern over the environmental impact of exploration and production at greater depths, he says.The scientists will use the "lander," which is naturally buoyant and drops weights to descend to the ocean bottom, to study marine life and its environment at depths of up to 9,000 feet."There are a lot of bizarre fauna down there," Rowe says. "For example, there are creatures that act like buzzards

Cheri Blum paintings

Cheri Blum paintings
Camille Pissarro paintings
Down the line, it could be used [as] credit cards and such," says Chris Hables Gray, a professor of cultural studies of science and technology at the University of Great Falls in Montana. "A lot of people won't have to carry wallets anymore," he says. "What the implications are [for this technology], in the long run, is profound."Indeed, some are already wondering what this sort of technology may do to the sense of personal privacy and liberty."Any technology of this kind is easily abusive of personal privacy," says Lee Tien, senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "If a kid is track-able, do you want other people to be able to track your kid? It's a double-edged sword."Tiny Chips That Know Your NameThe research — and controversy — of embedding microchips isn't entirely new. Back in 1998, Brian Warwick, a professor of cybernetics at Reading University in London, implanted a chip into his arm as an experiment to see if Warwick's computer could wirelessly track his whereabouts with the university's building

ballet paintings

ballet paintings
beach painting
man who was on the 21st floor at the time the plane hit said the building was evacuated in an orderly fashion.The Pirelli building houses the administrative offices of the local Lombardy region and sits next to the city's central train station.Allayed FearsThe plane was destined for Italy's capital Rome, and departed from Lucerne airport in Switzerland, sources from the National Air Safety board told ANSA.It was the second time since the Sept. 11 terror attacks that a plane has struck a high-rise building, and the crash raised fears of another attack. But local officials now say it was probably an accident.A transport official told Reuters the plane had reported problems with its undercarriage and was circling the city ahead of trying to land at a local airport

Boat painting

Boat painting
building painting
Lauren Jackson scored 33 points for Australia, which won the silver medal at the Sydney Olympics ( news - web sites). In the quarterfinals, Chun Joo-weon scored 15 points to lead South Korea ( news - web sites) to a 71-70 win over Brazil 71-70; and Elena Baranova scored 23 points in Russia's 86-70 victory over host China. Swoopes, the WNBA MVP, helped limit Spain's top scorer, Amaya Valdemoro, to seven points. U.S. coach Van Chancellor said the American women were motivated by the sixth-place finish of the U.S. men's team at the World Championships earlier this month. "I don't think there's ever been anything that's been any better attention getter for the U.S. women than the fact our men got beat," Chancellor said. "I think that's one of the reasons we've been so focused.

Steve Hanks Casting Her Shadows painting

Steve Hanks Casting Her Shadows painting
Andrew Atroshenko The Passion of Music painting
Rosner and its electronics partner, German computer chip maker Infineon Technologies AG, said the limited-edition garment is "geared toward technologically progressive, fashion-conscious men." Priced at 599 euros ($725), it will be available through the Rosner web site starting in August for delivery in February. Armstrong's victories and his inspiring comeback from cancer have drawn new fans to a race that has been won five times by four other riders. His professionalism, attention to detail, grueling training regimens and tactics have raised the bar for other riders hoping to win the three-week cycling marathon. "He's changed the Tour forever," said fellow American rider Bobby Julich. "He has set the blueprint for success, and he deserves all the success that he is getting." Armstrong still hasn't decided whether he will back next year to compete in the race he loves above all others, for which he trains relentlessly, leaving his three children in Texas, with former wife Kristin."I don't know what I'll do next summer. I suspect I'll be here. It's too big of a race. My only hesitance is I think the people and the event perhaps need a change, new faces, a new winner," he said. "If I'm here, I race to win."

Gustav Klimt Klimt Sappho painting

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  Gustav Klimt Klimt Sappho painting
  Guillaume Seignac The Awakening of Psyche painting
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  pet groomer is trimming the dyed fur of a poodle at a pet grooming parlor in Chongqing, southwestern China. Pet grooming, including haircut and coloring, starts at 300 yuan for small dogs...
  A pet groomer is trimming the dyed fur of a poodle at a pet grooming parlor in Chongqing, southwestern China. Pet grooming, including haircut and coloring, starts at 300 yuan for small dogs.Pet grooming is very physical work. It involves lifting, carrying and handling pets that may weigh as much as 150 pounds. Thus, stamina and strength are required.Pet groomers shampoo, clip and groom dogs, cats and other pets to improve and maintain their hygiene.

Camille Pissarro paintings

Camille Pissarro paintings
Carl Fredrik Aagard paintings

What's your fast-food IQ? Uncover the truth to these common fast food myths.
Fast food is a mainstay of the American diet. In fact, in any given day, 1 in 4 of us fills our stomachs at a fast-food chain. What does this mean to our health? America is the fattest nation in the world, with 61 percent of adults and children weighing in at overweight or obese, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Like our bellies, the fast-food phenomenon is growing too: we plunked down $3 billion on the speedy burgers, fries, and tacos in 1992, and today that number tops a whopping $110 billion. In 2004, Morgan Spurlock chronicled his experience of eating solely fast food for one month in his Academy Award-nominated documentary Super Size Me. The filmmaker gained 25 pounds and put his health in jeopardy, according to a panel of doctors. (Next up for this one-month fast-food junkie: His one-hour TV reality show 30 Days, which premiered June 15th on the cable channel FX. In the series, an individual takes up a completely different lifestyle -- whether religious, economic, or ethnic

Decorative painting

Decorative painting
Heather's assessment was typical of many dog owners' diagnoses of behavioral problems. And her vet agreed, suggesting "separation anxiety" and prescribing anti-anxiety medication for Blue. Heather also hired a trainer, who confirmed the diagnosis.Blue, they concluded, was resentful at her owner's absence and was misbehaving to regain the attention that she'd once monopolized. After all, Blue didn't transgress like this when Heather went out shopping or took in a movie with friends. It must be punitive. Heather's mother even recalled Heather, as a child, throwing tantrums when she went off to work. Heather and Blue had become so close, she joked, that they were acting alike. So Heather shut Blue in the kitchen with a toddler gate, removing countertop food and garbage. Things calmed down. Heather began to relax and gave Blue the run of the house again.

Yvonne Jeanette Karlsen By the sea painting

Yvonne Jeanette Karlsen By the sea painting
Claude Monet Vetheuil In Summer painting
was the first time I had ever talked to him that way, and he had this surprised look on his face.
I said, ‘Dad, I‘m too old for a goodbye kiss. I‘m too old for any kind of kiss.‘
My Dad looked at me for the longest time, and his eyes started to tear up. I had never seen him cry. He turned and looked out the windshield. ‘You‘re right,‘ he said. ‘You are a big boy....a man. I won‘t kiss you anymore.‘"
Frank got a funny look on his face, and the tears began to well up in his eyes, as he spoke. "It wasn‘t long after that when my Dad went to sea and never came back. It was a day when most of the fleet stayed in, but not Dad. He had a big family to feed. They found his boat adrift with its nets half in and half out. He must have gotten into a gale and was trying to save the nets and the floats."
I looked at Frank and saw that tears were running down his cheeks. Frank spoke again. "Guys, you don‘t know what I would give to have my Dad give me just one more kiss on the cheek....to feel his rough old face....to smell the ocean on him....to feel his arm around my neck. I wish I had been a man then. If I had been a man, I would never have told my Dad I was too old for a goodbye kiss."

Vittore Carpaccio paintings

Vittore Carpaccio paintings
Warren Kimble paintings
ironing, Mrs. Doctor, dear."
"Anne, I have just had a letter from Owen," said Leslie, entering with a bright face. "And, oh! I have such good news. He writes me that he is going to buy this place from the church trustees and keep it to spend our summer vacations in. Anne, are you not glad?"
"Oh, Leslie, `glad' isn't the word for it! It seems almost too good to be true. I sha'n't feel half so badly now that I know this dear spot will never be desecrated by a vandal tribe, or left to tumble down in decay. Why, it's lovely! It's lovely!"
One October morning Anne wakened to the realisation that she had slept for the last time under the roof of her little house. The day was too busy to indulge regret and when evening came the house was stripped and bare. Anne and Gilbert were alone in it to say farewell. Leslie and Susan and Little Jem had gone to the Glen with the last load of furniture. The sunset light streamed in through the curtainless windows.
"It has all such a heart-broken, reproachful look, hasn't it?" said Anne. "Oh, I

Frederic Edwin Church Landscape in the Adirondacks painting

Frederic Edwin Church Landscape in the Adirondacks painting
Pierre Auguste Renoir The Boating Party Lunch I painting
Don't quote that old ninny to me," cried Miss Cornelia. "And I don't care who agrees with him. Think--think what it means to that poor hunted, harried girl."
"We do think of it. But Gilbert believes that a doctor should put the welfare of a patient's mind and body before all other considerations."
"That's just like a man. But I expected better things of you, Anne," said Miss Cornelia, more in sorrow than in wrath; then she proceeded to bombard Anne with precisely the same arguments with which the latter had attacked Gilbert; and Anne valiantly defended her husband with the weapons he had used for his own protection. Long was the fray, but Miss Cornelia made an end at last.
"It's an iniquitous shame," she declared, almost in tears. "That's just what it is--an iniquitous shame. Poor, poor Leslie!"

Gustav Klimt lady with fan painting

Gustav Klimt lady with fan painting
Douglas Hofmann midnight blue painting
Lord, Anne, dearie, I've got eyes, haven't I? And I've known Leslie since she was a baby . There's been a new kind of heartbreak in her eyes all the fall, and I know that writer-man was behind it somehow. I'll never forgive myself for being the means of bringing him here. But I never expected he'd be like he was. I thought he'd just be like the other men Leslie had boarded--conceited young asses, every one of them, that she never had any use for. One of them did try to flirt with her once and she froze him out--so bad, I feel sure he's never got himself thawed since. So I never thought of any danger."
"Don't let Leslie suspect you know her secret," said Anne hurriedly. "I think it would hurt her."
"Trust me, Anne, dearie. I wasn't born yesterday. Oh, a plague on all the men! One of them ruined Leslie's life to begin with, and now another of the tribe comes and makes her still more wretched. Anne, this world is an awful place, believe me."
"There's something in the world amiss Will be unriddled by and by,"
quoted Anne dreamily.

Amedeo Modigliani the Seated Nude painting

Amedeo Modigliani the Seated Nude painting
Gustav Klimt lady with fan painting
written one should be a master of vigorous yet subtle style, a keen psychologist, a born humorist and a born tragedian. A rare combination of gifts is needed. Paul might do it if he were older. Anyhow, I'm going to ask him to come down next summer and meet Captain Jim."
"Come to this shore," wrote Anne to Paul. "I am afraid you cannot find here Nora or the Golden Lady or the Twin Sailors; but you will find one old sailor who can tell you wonderful stories."
Paul, however wrote back, saying regretfully that he could not come that year. He was going abroad for two year's study.
"When I return I'll come to Four Winds, dear Teacher," he wrote.
"But meanwhile, Captain Jim is growing old," said Anne, sorrowfully, "and there is nobody to write his life-book."

Leon-Augustin L'hermitte paintings

Leon-Augustin L'hermitte paintings
Lady Laura Teresa Alma-Tadema paintings
This girl is. You can't have seen her, or you would remember her. Nobody could forget her. I never saw such a face except in pictures. And her hair! It made me think of Browning's `cord of gold' and `gorgeous snake'!"
"Probably she's some visitor in Four Winds--likely some one from that big summer hotel over the harbor."
"She wore a white apron and she was driving geese."
"She might do that for amusement. Look, Anne--there's our house."
Anne looked and forgot for a time the girl with the splendid, resentful eyes. The first glimpse of her new home was a delight to eye and spirit--it looked so like a big, creamy seashell stranded on the harbor shore. The rows of tall Lombardy poplars down its lane stood out in stately, purple silhouette against the sky. Behind it, sheltering its garden from the too keen

Gustav Klimt paintings

Gustav Klimt paintings
Georgia O'Keeffe paintings
Not very large, but large enough for us. There's a splendid living room with a fireplace in it downstairs, and a dining room that looks out on the harbor, and a little room that will do for my office. It is about sixty years old--the oldest house in Four Winds. But it has been kept in pretty good repair, and was all done over about fifteen years ago--shingled, plastered and re-floored. It was well built to begin with. I understand that there was some romantic story connected with its building, but the man I rented it from didn't know it.
He said Captain Jim was the only one who could spin that old yarn now."
"Who is Captain Jim?"
"The keeper of the lighthouse on Four Winds Point. You'll love that Four Winds light, Anne. It's a revolving one, and it flashes like a magnificent star through the twilights. We can see it from our living room windows and our front door."
"Who owns the house?"
"Well, it's the property of the Glen St. Mary Presbyterian Church

Eduard Manet paintings

Eduard Manet paintings
Edwin Austin Abbey paintings
Thanks be, I'm done with geometry, learning or teaching it," said Anne Shirley, a trifle vindictively, as she thumped a somewhat battered volume of Euclid into a big chest of books, banged the lid in triumph, and sat down upon it, looking at Diana Wright across the Green Gables garret, with gray eyes that were like a morning sky.
The garret was a shadowy, suggestive, delightful place, as all garrets should be. Through the open window, by which Anne sat, blew the sweet, scented, sun-warm air of the August afternoon; outside, poplar boughs rustled and tossed in the wind; beyond them were the woods, where Lover's Lane wound its enchanted path, and the old apple orchard which still bore its rosy harvests munificently. And, over all, was a great mountain range of snowy clouds in the blue southern sky. Through the other window was glimpsed a distant, white-capped, blue sea--the beautiful

Pablo Picasso Girl with Mandolin Fanny Tellie painting

Pablo Picasso Girl with Mandolin Fanny Tellie painting
Claude Monet Winter At Giverny painting
I -- I suppose so," said Anne reluctantly. She felt that she ought to be blushing while making such a confession; but she was not; on the other hand, she always blushed hotly when any one said anything about Gilbert Blythe or Christine Stuart in her hearing. Gilbert Blythe and Christine Stuart were nothing to her -- absolutely nothing. But Anne had given up trying to analyze the reason of her blushes. As for Roy, of course she was in love with him -- madly so. How could she help it? Was he not her ideal? Who could resist those glorious dark eyes, and that pleading voice? Were not half the Redmond girls wildly envious? And what a charming sonnet he had sent her, with a box of violets, on her birthday! Anne knew every word of it by heart. It was very good stuff of its kind, too. Not exactly up to the level of Keats or Shakespeare -- even Anne was not so deeply in love as to think that. But it was very tolerable magazine verse. And it was addressed to HER -- not to Laura or Beatrice or the Maid of Athens, but to her, Anne Shirley. To be told in rhythmical cadences that her eyes were stars of the morning -- that her cheek had the flush it stole from the sunrise -- that her lips were redder than the roses of Paradise, was thrillingly romantic. Gilbert

Gustav Klimt two girls with an oleander painting

Gustav Klimt two girls with an oleander painting
Pino Purity painting
man in Bolingbroke who lisps and always testifies in prayer-meeting. He says, 'If you can't thine like an electric thtar thine like a candlethtick.' I'll be Jo's little candlestick."
"Phil, you're incorrigible. Well, I love you so much that I can't make nice, light, congratulatory little speeches. But I'm heart-glad of your happiness."
"I know. Those big gray eyes of yours are brimming over with real friendship, Anne. Some day I'll look the same way at you. You're going to marry Roy, aren't you, Anne?"
"My dear Philippa, did you ever hear of the famous Betty Baxter, who `refused a man before he'd axed her'? I am not going to emulate that celebrated lady by either refusing or accepting any one before he `axes' me."
"All Redmond knows that Roy is crazy about you," said Phil candidly." And you DO love him, don't you, Anne?"

Pierre Auguste Renoir The Boating Party Lunch painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir The Boating Party Lunch painting
Douglas Hofmann Model painting
Excellently well. He led his class. But where are the twins and Mrs. Lynde?"
"Rachel and Dora are over at Mr. Harrison's. Davy is down at Boulters'. I think I hear him coming now."
Davy burst in, saw Anne, stopped, and then hurled himself upon her with a joyful yell.
"Oh, Anne, ain't I glad to see you! Say, Anne, I've grown two inches since last fall. Mrs. Lynde measured me with her tape today, and say, Anne, see my front tooth. It's gone. Mrs. Lynde tied one end of a string to it and the other end to the door, and then shut the door. I sold it to Milty for two cents. Milty's collecting teeth."
"What in the world does he want teeth for?" asked Marilla.
"To make a necklace for playing Indian Chief," explained Davy, climbing upon Anne's

Pino Restfull painting

Pino Restfull painting
Vladimir Volegov Yellow Roses painting
What are you going to do with yourselves today, girls?" asked Philippa, popping into Anne's room one Saturday afternoon.
"We are going for a walk in the park," answered Anne. "I ought to stay in and finish my blouse. But I couldn't sew on a day like this. There's something in the air that gets into my blood and makes a sort of glory in my soul. My fingers would twitch and I'd sew a crooked seam. So it's ho for the park and the pines."
"Does `we' include any one but yourself and Priscilla?"
"Yes, it includes Gilbert and Charlie, and we'll be very glad if it will include you, also."
"But," said Philippa dolefully, "if I go I'll have to be gooseberry, and that will be a new experience for Philippa Gordon."

Andrew Atroshenko Ballerina painting

Andrew Atroshenko Ballerina painting
Albert Bierstadt On the Saco painting
threw him into the pig pen she mite of sold him to mr. blair. mr. blair is giving 50 sense apeace for good ded roosters now. I herd mrs. lynde asking the minister to pray for her. What did she do that was so bad, anne, I want to know. I've got a kite with a magnificent tail, anne. Milty bolter told me a grate story in school yesterday. it is troo. old Joe Mosey and Leon were playing cards one nite last week in the woods. The cards were on a stump and a big black man bigger than the trees come along and grabbed the cards and the stump and disapered with a noys like thunder. Ill bet they were skared. Milty says the black man was the old harry. was he, anne, I want to know. Mr. kimball over at spenservale is very sick and will have to go to the hospitable. please excuse me while I ask marilla if thats spelled rite. Marilla says its the silem he has to go to not the other place. He thinks he has a snake inside of him. whats it like to have a snake inside of you, anne. I want to know. mrs. lawrence bell is sick to. mrs. lynde says that all that is the matter with her is that she thinks too much about her insides."
"I wonder," said Anne, as she folded up her letters, "what Mrs. Lynde would think of Philippa

Edwin Lord Weeks paintings

Edwin Lord Weeks paintings
Frida Kahlo paintings
folks won't laugh at Uncle Abe's predictions again. Seems as if all the storms that he's been prophesying all his life that never happened came all at once. Beats all how he struck the very day though, don't it? Look at the mess we have here. I must hustle round and get some boards to patch up that hole in the floor."
Avonlea folks did nothing the next day but visit each other and compare damages. The roads were impassable for wheels by reason of the hailstones, so they walked or rode on horseback. The mail came late with ill tidings from all over the province. Houses had been struck, people killed and injured; the whole telephone and telegraph system had been disorganized, and any number of young stock exposed in the fields had perished.
Uncle Abe waded out to the blacksmith's forge early in the morning and spent the whole day there. It was Uncle Abe's hour of triumph and he enjoyed it to the full. It would be doing Uncle Abe an injustice to say that he was glad the storm had happened; but since it had to be

Claude Monet paintings

Claude Monet paintings
Charles Chaplin paintings
Uncle Abe really has predicted a storm for sometime this spring," said Gilbert, "but do you suppose Mr. Harrison really does go to see Isabella Andrews?"
"No," said Anne, laughing, "I'm sure he only goes to play checkers with Mr. Harrison Andrews, but Mrs. Lynde says she knows Isabella Andrews must be going to get married, she's in such good spirits this spring."
Poor old Uncle Abe felt rather indignant over the notes. He suspected that "Observer" was making fun of him. He angrily denied having assigned any particular date for his storm but nobody believed him.
Life in Avonlea continued on the smooth and even tenor of its way. The "planting" was put in; the Improvers celebrated an Arbor Day. Each Improver set out, or caused to be set outtrees. As the society now numbered forty members, this meant a total of two hundred young trees. Early oats greened over the red fields; apple orchards flung great blossoming arms about the farmhouses and the Snow Queen adorned itself as a bride for her husband. Anne liked to sleep with her window open and let the cherry fragrance blow over her face all night. She thought it very poetical. Marilla thought she was risking her life.

Theodore Chasseriau paintings

Theodore Chasseriau paintings
Ted Seth Jacobs paintings
Davy, do stop squirming like an eel."
"I've nothing else to do," protested Davy. "I can't eat any more, and it's no fun watching you and Anne eat."
"Well, you and Dora go out and give the hens their wheat," said Marilla. "And don't you try to pull any more feathers out of the white rooster's tail either."
"I wanted some feathers for an Injun headdress," said Davy sulkily. "Milty Boulter has a dandy one, made out of the feathers his mother give him when she killed their old white gobbler. You might let me have some. That rooster's got ever so many more'n he wants."
"You may have the old feather duster in the garret," said Anne, "and I'll

Decorative painting

Decorative painting
this instance was certainly effective, for she paused dramatically on the middle of the floor, threw up her hands, rolled her eyes, and exclaimed, "I've just heard something perfectly awful. What do you think? Mr. Judson Parker is going to rent all the road fence of his farm to a Patent Medicine Company to paint advertisements on."
For once in her life Gertie Pye made all the sensation she desired. If she had thrown a bomb among the complacent Improvers she could hardly have made more.
"It can't be true," said Anne blankly.
"That's just what I said when I heard it first, don't you know," said Gertie, who was enjoying herself hugely. "I said it couldn't be true. . .that Judson Parker wouldn't have the heart to do it, don't you know. But father met him this afternoon and asked him about it and he said it was true. Just fancy! His farm is side-on to the Newbridge road and how perfectly awful it will look to see advertisements of pills and plasters all along it, don't you know?"

Albert Bierstadt Buffalo Country painting

Albert Bierstadt Buffalo Country painting
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Ingres The Source painting
Tuesday afternoon the Aid Society met at Green Gables. Anne hurried home from school, for she knew that Marilla would need all the assistance she could give. Dora, neat and proper, in her nicely starched white dress and black sash, was sitting with the members of the Aid in the parlor, speaking demurely when spoken to, keeping silence when not, and in every way comporting herself as a model child. Davy, blissfully dirty, was making mud pies in the barnyard.
"I told him he might," said Marilla wearily. "I thought it would keep him out of worse mischief. He can only get dirty at that. We'll have our teas over before we call him to his. Dora can have hers with us, but I would never dare to let Davy sit down at the table with all the Aids here."
When Anne went to call the Aids to tea she found that Dora was not in the parlor. Mrs. Jasper Bell said Davy had come to the front door and called her out. A hasty consultation with Marilla in the pantry resulted in a decision to let both children have their teas together later on.
Tea was half over when the dining room was invaded by a forlorn figure. Marilla and

Guan zeju paintings

Guan zeju paintings
Gustav Klimt paintings
never let it happen! Well, it has taught me a lesson not to give my word of honor about cows. A cow that could jump over or break through our milk-pen fence couldn't be trusted anywhere."
Marilla had gone down to Mrs. Lynde's, and when she returned knew all about Dolly's sale and transfer, for Mrs. Lynde had seen most of the transaction from her window and guessed the rest.
"I suppose it's just as well she's gone, though you do do things in a dreadful headlong fashion, Anne. I don't see how she got out of the pen, though. She must have broken some of the boards off."
"I didn't think of looking," said Anne, "but I'll go and see now. Martin has never come back yet. Perhaps some more of his aunts have died. I think it's something like Mr. Peter Sloane and the octogenarians. The other evening Mrs. Sloane was reading a newspaper and she said to Mr. Sloane, `I see here that another octogenarian has just died. What is an octogenarian, Peter?' And Mr. Sloane said he didn't know, but they must be very