Wednesday, October 31, 2007

precious time

precious time
Naiade oil painting
Nighthawks Hopper
Nude on the Beach
One Moment in Time
¡¡¡¡ "I've seen Arabella." ¡¡¡¡ She winced at the hit; then said curiously, "When did you see her?" ¡¡¡¡ "When I was at Christminster." ¡¡¡¡ "So she's come back; and you never told me! I suppose you will live with her now?" ¡¡¡¡ "Of course--just as you live with your husband." ¡¡¡¡ She looked at the window pots with the geraniums and cactuses, withered for want of attention, and through them at the outer distance, till her eyes began to grow moist. "What is it?" said Jude, in a softened tone. ¡¡¡¡ "Why should you be so glad to go back to her if--if what you used to say to me is still true--I mean if it were true then! Of course it is not now! How could your heart go back to Arabella so soon?" ¡¡¡¡ "A special Providence, I suppose, helped it on its way." ¡¡¡¡ "Ah--it isn't true!" she said with gentle resentment. "You are teasing me--that's all--because you think I am not happy!" ¡¡¡¡ "I don't know. I don't wish to know." ¡¡¡¡ "If I were unhappy it would be my fault, my wickedness; not that I should have a right to dislike him! He is considerate to me in everything; and he is very interesting, from the amount of general knowledge he has acquired by reading everything that comes in his way.... Do you think, Jude, that a man ought to marry a woman his own age, or one younger than himself--eighteen years-- as I am than he?"

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