My Sweet Rose painting
Naiade oil painting
Nighthawks Hopper
I don't want your help,' she snapped; `I can get them for myself.'
`I beg your pardon!' I hastened to reply.
`Were you asked to tea?' she demanded, tying an apron over her neat black frock, and standing with a spoonful of the leaf poised over the pot.
`I shall be glad to have a cup,' I answered.
`Were you asked?' she repeated.
`No,' I said, half smiling. `You are the proper person to ask me.'
She flung the tea back, spoon and all, and resumed her chair in a pet; her forehead corrugated, and her red under lip pushed out, like a child's ready to cry.
oil painting
Meanwhile, the young man had slung on to his person a decidedly shabby upper garment, and, erecting himself before the blaze, looked down on me from the corner of his eyes, for all the world as if there were some mortal feud unavenged between us. I began to doubt whether he were a servant or not: his dress and speech were both rude, entirely devoid of the superiority observable in Mr and Mrs Heathcliff; his thick brown curls were rough and uncultivated, his whiskers encroached bearishly over his cheeks, and his hands were embrowned like those of a common labourer: still his bearing was free
Friday, January 4, 2008
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My Sweet Rose painting
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