Thursday, November 15, 2007

Naiade oil painting

Naiade oil painting
madonna with the yarnwinder painting
Mother and Child
My Sweet Rose painting
It was by no means his daughter's wish that the intellects of Highbury in general should be put under requisition. Mr. Elton was the only one whose assistance she asked. He was invited to contribute any really good enigmas, charades, or conundrums that he might recollect; and she had the pleasure of seeing him most intently at work with his recollections; and at the same time, as she could perceive, most earnestly careful that nothing ungallant, nothing that did not breathe a compliment to the sex should pass his lips. They owed to him their two or three politest puzzles; and the joy and exultation with which at last he recalled, and rather sentimentally recited, that well-known charade,    My first doth affliction denote, Which my second is destin'd to feel And my whole is the best antidote That affliction to soften and heal.--    made her quite sorry to acknowledge that they had transcribed it some pages ago already.    "Why will not you write one yourself for us, Mr. Elton?" said she; "that is the only security for its freshness; and nothing could be easier to you."    "Oh no! he had never written, hardly ever, any thing of the kind in his life. The stupidest fellow! He was afraid not even Miss Woodhouse"--he stopt a moment-- "or Miss Smith could inspire him."

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Naiade oil painting