Albert Bierstadt The Shore of the Turquoise Sea painting

Albert Bierstadt The Shore of the Turquoise Sea paintingDante Gabriel Rossetti Paolo and Francesca paintingDante Gabriel Rossetti A Sea Spell painting
took her problem to Farm Street and propounded it in general terms, not in the confessional, but in a dark little parlour kept for such interviews. ‘Surely, Father, it can’t be wrong to commit a small sin myself in order to keep him from a much worse one?’
But the gentle old Jesuit was unyielding. She barely listened to him; he was refusing her what she wanted, that was all she needed to know.
When he had finished he said, ‘Now you had better make your confession.’ ‘No, thank you,’ she said, as though refusing the offer of something in a shop. ‘I don’t think I want to today,’ and walked angrily Home.
From that moment she shut her mind against her religion. And