Showing posts with label abstract painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abstract painting. Show all posts

Thursday, October 25, 2007

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"Good-oh!" said Stoddart-West, pronouncing the word carefully.
"I don't like it pale," said Alexander anxiously.
"It won't be pale."
"She's a smashing cook," said Alexander to his father.
Lucy had a momentary impression that their roles were reversed. Alexander spoke like a kindly father to his son.
"Can we help you, Miss Eyelesbarrow?" asked Stoddart-West politely.
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Yes, you can. Alexander, go and sound the gong. James, will you carry this tray into the dining-room? And will you take the joint in, Mr. Eastley? I'll bring the potatoes and the Yorkshire pudding."
"There's a Scotland Yard man here," said Alexander. "Do you think he will have lunch with us?"
"That depends on what your aunt arranges."
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Lucy digested all this information, continuing to press tea on her information. Finally, reluctantly, Mrs. Kidder rose to her feet.
"Seem to have got along a treat, we do, this morning, she said wonderingly. Want me to give you a hand with the potatoes, dear?"
"They're all done ready."
"Well, you are a one for getting on with things! I might as well be getting along myself as there doesn't seem anything else to do."
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Mrs. Kidder departed and Lucy, with time on her hands, scrubbed the kitchen table which she had been longing to do, but which she had put off so as not to offend Mrs. Kidder whose job it properly was. Then she cleaned the silver till it shone radiantly. She cooked lunch, cleared it away, washed it up, and at two-thirty was ready to start exploration. She had set out the tea things ready on a tray, with sandwiches and bread and butter covered with a damp napkin to keep them moist.
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Monday, October 22, 2007

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"Regard,Hastings,did I not tell you that she had been a beautifulwoman?" He was right.Disfigured by old-fashioned hairdressing and weird clothes,there was no disguising the handsomeness of the girl in the picture with herclear-cut features and spirited bearing.I looked closely at the secondfigure.It was almost impossible to recognise the seedy Ascher in this smartyoung man with the military bearing. I recalled the leering drunken old man,and the toil-worn face of thedead woman-and I shivered a little at the remorselessness of time...... From the parlour a stair led to two upstairs rooms.
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One was empty and unfurnished,the other had evidently been the deadwoman's bedroom. After being searched by the police it had been left as it was.A coupleof old worn blankets on the bed-a little stock of well-darned underwear in adrawer-cookery recipets in another-a paper-backed novel entitled The GreenOasis-a pair of new stockings-pathetic in their cheap shininess-a couple ofchina ornaments-a Dresden shephered much broken,and a blue and yellowspotted dog-a black raincoat and a woolly jumper hanging on pegs-such werethe worldly possessions of the late Alice Ascher. If there had been any personal papers,the police had taken them. "Pauvre femme,"murmured Poirot.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

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"Thou hast been shamefully abused!" said the little king, with a flashing eye. "But I will right thee-by the cross will I! The king hath said it."
Then, fired by the story of Miles's wrongs, he loosed his tongue and poured the history of his own recent misfortunes into the ears of his astonished listener. When he had finished, Miles said to himself.
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Lo, what an imagination he hath! Verily this is no common mind; else, crazed or sane, it could not weave so straight and gaudy a tale as this out of the airy nothings wherewith it hath wrought this curious romaunt. Poor ruined little head, it shall not lack friend or shelter whilst I bide with the living. He shall never leave my side; he shall be my pet, my little comrade. And he shall be cured!-ayeAbstract Painting

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Arrived at the Dowgate, the fleet was towed up the limpid Walbrook (whose channel has now been for two centuries buried out of sight under acres of buildings) to Bucklersbury, past houses and under bridges populous with merry-makers and brilliantly lighted, and at last came to a halt in a basin where now is Barge Yard, in the center of the ancient city of London. Tom disembarked, and he and his gallant procession crossed Cheapside and made a short march through the Old Jewry and Basinghall Street to the Guildhall.
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Tom and his little ladies were received with due ceremony by the Lord Mayor and the Fathers of the City, in their gold chains and scarlet robes of state, and conducted to a rich canopy of state at the head of the great hall, preceded by heralds making proclamation, and by the Mace and the City Sword. The lords and ladies who were to attend upon Tom and his two small friends took their places behind their chairs.
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Monday, October 15, 2007

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erhaps because his luncheon was served to him a good deal later than usual, Mr. Sleuth ate his nice piece of steamed sole upstairs with far heartier an appetite than his landlady had eaten her nice slice of roast pork downstairs.
"I hope you're feeling a little better, sir," Mrs. Bunting had forced herself to say when she first took in his tray.
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And he had answered plaintively, querulously, "No, I can't say I feel well to-day, Mrs. Bunting. I am tired - very tired. And as I lay in bed I seemed to hear so many sounds - so much crying and shouting. I trust the Marylebone Road is not going to become a noisy thoroughfare, Mrs. Bunting?"
"Oh, no, sir, I don't think that. We're generally reckoned very quiet indeed, sir."
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Friday, October 12, 2007

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Monsieur Fred. Don't deny it; and your theory demands that the murderer should not have been wounded in the hand, otherwise it comes to nothing. And you have searched, and have found something else. It's dangerous, very dangerous, Monsieur Fred, to go from a preconceived idea to find the proofs to fit it. That method may lead you far astray Beware of judicial error, Monsieur Fred, it will trip you up!"
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And laughing a little, in a slightly bantering tone, his hands in his pockets, Rouletabille fixed his cunning eyes on the great Fred.
Frederic Larsan silently contemplated the young reporter who pretended to be as wise as himself. Shrugging his shoulders, he bowed to us and moved quickly away, hitting the stones on his path with his stout cane.
Rouletabille watched his retreat, and then turned toward us, his face joyous and triumphant.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007

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so I determined, rather of necessity, to let them give their lessons in little doses when they felt inclined. And very little doses I found they were before long, for I never met people more indolent or more easily fatigued.
`A queer thing I soon discovered about my little hosts, and that was their lack of interest. They would come to me with eager cries of astonishment, like children, but like children they would soon stop examining me and wander away after some other toy
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The dinner and my conversational beginnings ended, I noted for the first time that almost all those who had surrounded me at first were gone. It is odd, too, how speedily I came to disregard these little people. I went out through the portal into the sunlit world again as soon as my hunger was satisfied. I was continually meeting more of these men of the future, who would follow me a little distance, chatter and laugh about me, and, having
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

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哇,如大的一束香水百合哦!如睛,这回又是哪个追求者送的呀?”同事小美羡慕的看着如睛手中的那束花。小美本来是个美女,以前同事们都戏称她是办公室之花,但自从如睛这位大美女来了后,什么光环都没有了。连带的小美就讨厌上了如睛,不过如睛可人的个性,渐渐的化解了小美对她的嫉妒和厌恶。现在两人成了很聊的来的朋友。
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如睛有什么事都会和她谈,她也知道如睛对昊川的那份爱。如睛自个儿也不清楚谁送的,对于那些追求者哪记的住那么多,而且她对那些追求者一点意思都没有,自然不会费心思去记哪个和哪个了。摇了摇头。头痛地看着眼前这一大束花,不知道怎么处理才好。办公室已经放了很多了,再者也没有器皿可以插花了。小美倒是提了个建议,叫如睛把花带回去,顺便测试下她的同居人是否会吃醋,即使不会也无大碍,可以美化环境嘛。呵呵。。。。。 Abstract Painting

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睛好奇着看看这个,摸摸这个,慢慢的去适应眼前这个新的环境。看到沙发上一个黑色的方盒子,拿起来随意的把玩着,一不小心按了颗键,前面的大方盒子突然出来了声音“欢迎您收看综艺台,接下来为你放送、、、、、、”不知道这个是什么东西,有声音而且竟然会动的,不知道里面的人会不会跑出来,得小心!‘咦’,这东西真神奇,竟然会变的,可怜的摇控器就这样沦为美女的玩具,说不定多把玩几下,一不小心就会慷慨就义了。
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了好一会儿电视,才真的从崇贞十三年到二十世纪的感觉,感觉象是变天了。自己如同是古董般,和这里的一切都格格不入。还好现在还有演古装戏什么的,才不至于被当熊猫般看起来。大概是老天可怜自己,给自己一个机会去重新开始新的生活吧。想着小绿这时候肯定是急死了,不知道会被皇帝怎么处理,希望会没事,毕竟出现这事也怪不得小绿。爹娘就我一个女儿,知道自己不在了,肯定会伤心的很。不知道还回不回的去,如果回去依然待在冷清清的宫里,倒是宁愿待在这个时代。
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Monday, October 8, 2007

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听尘芳唤了自己两声,婉晴恍过神起身道:“您歇着吧,我明日再来。”说着便急急忙忙的走了。
绵凝端着牛乳子进来不见人,听剑柔道:“这福晋可真奇怪,眼巴巴的来了,才说了两句便走。”
尘芳则冥思地抚着腕上的镯子,那是去年兰吟来盛京时捎给她的,说是自己特地买了送于额娘的,她见这镯子色泽嫣红通润,心下喜欢,便时常戴着,今日看来却绝非寻常之物。
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寒风吹过,婉晴猛得吸进口冷气,只觉胸口闷得慌。她自及妍后,便常听人夸赞自己‘端庄秀丽,贞静贤淑’,十六岁选秀入了宫,后便被赐于九阿哥胤禟作了侧福晋。当时胤禟对自己也可说是温柔体贴,那两年日子就像浸在糖罐里一般甜蜜。可是渐渐地,她发现胤禟老爱往宫里跑,常常独自一人坐着发呆,有时还会莫名奇妙的发脾气。当时自己便隐约猜着了几分。
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“当然不是。师父只是想若非是我疏忽,你现在怎么着也应该是夫妻和美、一家团圆。唉……”
“师父!不是说好了不再说这事了吗?我现在不是好得很吗?咱们不也是一家团圆吗?”
“现在好又能如何?女儿家终归是要有个夫家才算是有了依靠,要不师父和你大哥都不会放心啊。你倒好,自己不着急不说,也不想着让师父安心些。”
“美人师父,您今天是怎么了?怎么尽说这事?是不是徒弟又做了什么让您不安心的事?”
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哈,你这丫头,还想瞒着师父?”
“师父……您到底说什么呀?”金多多心中一惊,师父知道了?这怎么可能?是谁泄的密?
“说什么?当然是说甘公子!师父今天已经见过他了,果然是个好男儿。”司徒长乐满意地笑着。
“甘公子?师父您怎么会……”
“好了,你也别使小性子,皇上也是关心你,他得知甘公子对你是一片真心,自己也很高兴,就马上传书与我,让我也能安心。你这个徒弟可是比你强。”
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Saturday, October 6, 2007

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拿起梨花醉,缓缓地喝过两杯,仍是拿起薄的那页信纸看了起来,展开一看,不由得好笑,这张纸是对信封上空白的说明与补充。上边寥寥几语:“一想到此信得在至多三人的手中转换,便会多几人默念封面的‘伶雪宝贝’亲启字样,朕便觉得十分的不痛快,故反复思量,还是作罢!”
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走到桌前坐定,我仍是觉得十分的开心,知道自己爱这个男人,也知道自己的爱一点也不伟大,但我知道,在这举目无亲的古代,他爱我、宠我、放任我自由,这便足够了,足够让我爱上他。当然,我是不会告诉他的,有人说相爱的人应当坦白地说出爱意,但是……爱情一旦变成了你侬我侬,一天相互说上一百遍我爱你,神仙也厌倦。他那样的人,或许不会倦,但定会更加的骄傲的。
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那个男人在他的专属座位上坐下后,我乖乖地站在跟前,低着头用肢体语言表达最大的悔意。而嘉靖皇帝也用见面以来最柔软也最欠揍的语气低笑道:“现在知道怕了,嗯?”语调冷清,知道和一个生气的男人斗嘴是十分不明智的事情,况且吵起来吃亏的也是我,我撇撇嘴,不做声地退到一旁站定。
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真不懂这男人在想什么,这是很正式的场合,他们君臣一堂,叙说国事,我一个身份尴尬的女人——还是个寡妇,站在皇帝身边成什么体统?况且还是个没吃早餐的女人。我抖抖腿,晚睡早起加上宿醉,嗯,身体状态还未复原,又城里城外跑了两趟,肚子里空空的,再被这个男人吓了几吓,全身都有气无力。于是,我的头低得更甚,神情更显怯怯可怜,偶尔还用我们家小涵惯用的撒赖的弱弱的眼神抬头瞅瞅他。
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Thursday, October 4, 2007

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自太祖登基以来,西边边界处的三不管地带、密林深处时有小股流寇下山惊扰边民,日积月累,流寇已近万人,竟是有组织有计划的公然聚众与朝庭对抗。长公主驸马(又称大驸马)和信王一起领了圣旨前去剿匪,苦于地形不熟,交通不便,一时竟无法全数歼灭匪众。加上现在已是严冬,山路更是难行,贼匪躲在深山只是不出来,双方僵着好一段日子了。
因为大驸马和信王在一块儿领圣差,所以长公主对我主仆三人也算客气,亲自拨了个西边的正院给我们主仆住。给我配了大小十二个丫鬟八个未留头的小子,并亲嘱众人好生侍候,月例同其他院子的一样,连我和红绿二姝都有份的。因春节已至,长公主陪我一起守岁、祈福,总算在长公主府过了个穿越后的第一个热热闹闹的春节。
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长公主和传闻中的某些细节差不多,待人淡淡的,又时不时从骨子里透出疏远来,加上身份摆在那儿,所以也不大亲近人。
我和绯红、绿萼二人在长公主府算得上风生水起。太后打定了主意要给足我面子,时不时遣了何总管亲来问问饮食起居等情况,隔三差五的便来点赏赐,从衣物首饰到绫罗绸缎,最后连御膳都整席整席地赐来。每次都得设香案跪谢圣恩。
每次在一旁打点规矩、杂事,公主府太监、侍女都会随着懿旨的到来,而得到太后赏下来的些许好处,刚开始众人都个个喜笑颜开,只盼着我这个准信王妃多多得宠。我在公主府地位已经升至他们总主子长公主那个层次,连带着绯红、绿萼二人在府内都是“姑娘”长、“姑娘”短地让人奉承着。随着后来赏赐越来越多,东西越来越杂,经常是刚刚收拾起香案用具,正门外又传宣懿旨的太监高声唱喏:懿旨到!大家都开始麻木了,但规矩摆在那儿又不得不从。一时间,我在整个公主府是闹了个人仰马翻。太监侍女的领赏积极性大打折扣,人人闻旨而惊。
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007

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“知道就好,我立马领你到旁边屋里,人家叫你弄啥你弄啥,不准反抗,不准喊叫,要是犯了这两条,你就跟这鸡是一样的下场!”
  姐姐小米吓傻了,吓呆了,连连点头:“嗯嗯嗯。”
  父亲一闪身子,麻利地进了房间的
卫生间,片刻出来,两只手上的血已经洗得干干净净。他将姐姐小米提起来,两只眼睛瞪着姐姐:“跟着我走!”
  于是,已经被父亲吓得脑子一片空白的姐姐小米,跟随着父亲来到了隔壁房间,怯怯地站在父亲身后。
  一个脑袋瓜中间没有头发的男人躺在床上看报纸,看到他们进来,把报纸往床边一放,很随意地说了句:“来了?”
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“知道就好,我立马领你到旁边屋里,人家叫你弄啥你弄啥,不准反抗,不准喊叫,要是犯了这两条,你就跟这鸡是一样的下场!”
  姐姐小米吓傻了,吓呆了,连连点头:“嗯嗯嗯。”
  父亲一闪身子,麻利地进了房间的
卫生间,片刻出来,两只手上的血已经洗得干干净净。他将姐姐小米提起来,两只眼睛瞪着姐姐:“跟着我走!”
  于是,已经被父亲吓得脑子一片空白的姐姐小米,跟随着父亲来到了隔壁房间,怯怯地站在父亲身后。
  一个脑袋瓜中间没有头发的男人躺在床上看报纸,看到他们进来,把报纸往床边一放,很随意地说了句:“来了?”
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