Bierstadt Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains California painting

Bierstadt Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains California painting
Bierstadt Autumn Woods painting
Knight Knight Picking Flowers painting
Waterhouse Waterhouse Narcissus painting
can't I say that either? Mercy me -- when my children beg me to have all those gods and goddesses painted out overhead I always say I'm too thankful to have somebody about me that nothing can shock!''
Archer burst into a laugh, and May echoed it, crimson to the eyes.
``Well, now tell me all about the party, please, my dears, for I shall never get a straight word about it out of that silly Medora,'' the ancestress continued; and, as May exclaimed: ``Cousin Medora? But I thought she was going back to Portsmouth?'' she answered placidly: ``So she is -- but she's got to come here first to pick up Ellen. Ah -- you didn't know Ellen had come to spend the day with me? Such fol-de-rol, her not coming for the summer; but I gave up arguing with young people about fifty years ago. Ellen -- Ellen!'' she cried in her shrill old voice, trying to bend forward far enough to catch a glimpse of the lawn beyond the verandah.
There was no answer, and Mrs. Mingott rapped impatiently with her stick on the shiny floor. A mulatto maid-servant in a bright turban, replying to the summons, informed her mistress that she had seen ``Miss Ellen'' going down the path to the shore; and Mrs. Mingott turned to Archer.