precious time

precious time
Red Hat Girl
Red Nude painting
Regatta At Argenteuil
¡¡¡¡ "It is odd," she said, in a voice quite changed, "that I should care about that air; because----" ¡¡¡¡ "Because what?" ¡¡¡¡ "I am not that sort--quite." ¡¡¡¡ "Not easily moved?" ¡¡¡¡ "I didn't quite mean that." ¡¡¡¡ "Oh, but you ARE one of that sort, for you are just like me at heart!" ¡¡¡¡ "But not at head." ¡¡¡¡ She played on and suddenly turned round; and by an unpremeditated instinct each clasped the other's hand again. ¡¡¡¡ She uttered a forced little laugh as she relinquished his quickly. "How funny!" she said. "I wonder what we both did that for?" ¡¡¡¡ "I suppose because we are both alike, as I said before." ¡¡¡¡ "Not in our thoughts! Perhaps a little in our feelings." ¡¡¡¡ "And they rule thoughts.... Isn't it enough to make one blaspheme that the composer of that hymn is one of the most commonplace men I ever met!" ¡¡¡¡ "What--you know him?"