Naiade oil painting
Nighthawks Hopper
Nude on the Beach
One Moment in Time
regard attached to the prelates, by reason of his own former hopes. Of them he had an ample band--some men of heart, others rather men of head; he who apologized for the Church in Latin; the saintly author of the Evening Hymn; and near them the great itinerant preacher, hymn-writer, and zealot, shadowed like Jude by his matrimonial difficulties. ¡¡¡¡ Jude found himself speaking out loud, holding conversations with them as it were, like an actor in a melodrama who apostrophizes the audience on the other side of the footlights; till he suddenly ceased with a start at his absurdity. Perhaps those incoherent words of the wanderer were heard within the walls by some student or thinker over his lamp; and he may have raised his head, and wondered what voice it was, and
oil paintingwhat it betokened. Jude now perceived that, so far as solid flesh went, he had the whole aged city to himself with the exception of a belated townsman here and there, and that he seemed to be catching a cold. ¡¡¡¡ A voice reached him out of the shade; a real and local voice: ¡¡¡¡ "You've been a-settin' a long time on that plinth-stone, young man. What med you be up to?" ¡¡¡¡ It came from a policeman who had been observing Jude without the latter observing him. ¡¡¡¡ Jude went home and to bed, after reading up a little about these men and their several messages to the world from a book or two that he had brought with him concerning the sons of the university. As
Monday, December 17, 2007
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