Thursday, November 1, 2007

the polish rider

the polish rider
The Sacrifice of Abraham painting
The Three Ages of Woman
The Virgin and Child with St Anne
Then you'll be free?" ¡¡¡¡ "Yes, I shall be free." ¡¡¡¡ "Where are we booked for?" she asked, with the discontinuity that marked her to-night. ¡¡¡¡ "Aldbrickham, as I said." ¡¡¡¡ "But it will be very late when we get there?" ¡¡¡¡ "Yes. I thought of that, and I wired for a room for us at the Temperance Hotel there." ¡¡¡¡ "One?" ¡¡¡¡ "Yes--one." ¡¡¡¡ She looked at him. "Oh Jude!" Sue bent her forehead against the corner of the compartment. "I thought you might do it; and that I was deceiving you. But I didn't mean that!" ¡¡¡¡ In the pause which followed, Jude's eyes fixed themselves with a stultified expression on the opposite seat. "Well!" he said.... "Well!" ¡¡¡¡ He remained in silence; and seeing how discomfited he was she put her face against his cheek, murmuring, "Don't be vexed, dear!" ¡¡¡¡ "Oh--there's no harm done," he said. "But--I understood it like that.... Is this a sudden change of mind?"

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the polish rider

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the polish rider