One Moment in Time

One Moment in Time
precious time
Red Hat Girl
Red Nude painting
The real circumstances of this pathetic piece of family history were, that the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son; and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year; that he had been sent to sea because he was stupid and unmanageable on shore; that he had been very little cared for at any time by his family, though quite as much as he deserved; seldom heard of, and scarcely at all regretted, when the intelligence of his death abroad had worked its way to Uppercross, two years before. ¡¡¡¡ He had, in fact, though his sisters were now doing all they could for him, by calling him "poor Richard,
oil painting" been nothing better than a thick-headed, unfeeling, unprofitable Dick Musgrove, who had never done anything to entitle himself to more than the abbreviation of his name, living or dead. ¡¡¡¡ He had been several years at sea, and had, in the course of those removals to which all midshipmen are liable, and especially such midshipmen as every captain wishes to get rid of, been six months on board Captain Frederick Wentworth's frigate, the Laconia; and from the Laconia he had, under the influence of his captain, written the only two letters which his father and mother had ever received from him during the whole of his absence; that is to say, the only two disinterested letters; all the rest had been mere applications for money

One Moment in Time

One Moment in Time
Red Nude painting
Regatta At Argenteuil
Rembrandt Biblical Scene
Rembrandt The Jewish Bride Arabella's eyes removed from Jude to Mrs. Edlin. "D'ye think she will come?" she asked. ¡¡¡¡ "I could not say. She swore not to see him again." ¡¡¡¡ "How is she looking?" ¡¡¡¡ "Tired and miserable, poor heart. Years and years older than when you saw her last. Quite a staid, worn woman now. 'Tis the man-- she can't stomach un, even now!" ¡¡¡¡ "If Jude had been alive to see her, he would hardly have cared for her any more, perhaps." ¡¡¡¡ "That's what we don't know.... Didn't he ever ask you to send for her, since he came to see her in that strange way?" ¡¡¡¡ "No. Quite the contrary. I offered to send, and he said I was not to let her know how ill he was." ¡¡¡¡ "Did he forgive her?" ¡¡¡¡ "Not as I know." ¡¡¡¡ "Well--poor little thing, 'tis to be believed she's found forgiveness somewhere! She said she had found peace!