Marc Chagall Painting

Marc Chagall Painting
"Only that thou be blind and dumb and paralytic whilst one may count a hundred thousand-counting slowly," said Hendon, with the expression of a man who asks but a reasonable favor, and that a very little one.
Marc Chagall Painting
"It is my destruction!" said the constable despairingly. "Ah, be reasonable, good sir; only look at this matter, on all its sides, and see how mere a jest it is-how manifestly and how plainly it is so. And even if one granted it were not a jest, it is a fault so small that e"en the grimmest penalty it could call forth would be but a rebuke and warning from the judge's lips."
Hendon replied with a solemnity which chilled the air about him
Marc Chagall Painting