Leighton Leighton Flaming June painting

Leighton Leighton Flaming June painting
Bouguereau The Virgin with Angels painting
hassam Poppies Isles of Shoals painting
Dancer dance series painting
Since she had been the means of hastening his marriage old Catherine had shown to Archer the cordiality which a service rendered excites toward the person served. She was persuaded that irrepressible passion was the cause of his impatience; and being an ardent admirer of impulsiveness (when it did not lead to the spending of money) she always received him with a genial twinkle of complicity and a play of allusion to which May seemed fortunately impervious.
She examined and appraised with much interest the diamond-tipped arrow which had been pinned on May's bosom at the conclusion of the match, remarking that in her day a filigree brooch would have been thought
-213-enough, but that there was no denying that Beaufort did things handsomely.
``Quite an heirloom, in fact, my dear,'' the old lady chuckled. ``You must leave it in fee to your eldest girl.'' She pinched May's white arm and watched the colour flood her face. ``Well, well, what have I said to make you shake out the red flag? Ain't there going to be any daughters -- only boys, eh? Good gracious, look at her blushing again all over her blushes! What --