Monday, November 26, 2007

Spring Breeze

Spring Breeze
Return of the Prodigal Son
Samson And Delilah
seated nude
¡¡¡¡He glanced towards the row of girls. ¡¡¡¡`She ought to ha' told him just before they went to church, when he could hardly have backed out,' exclaimed Marian. ¡¡¡¡`Yes, she ought,' agreed Izz. ¡¡¡¡`She must have seen what he was after, and should ha' refused him,' cried Retty spasmodically. ¡¡¡¡`And what do you say, my dear?' asked the dairyman of Tess. ¡¡¡¡`I think she ought - to have told him the true state of things - or else refused him - I don't know,' replied Tess, the bread-and-butter choking her. ¡¡¡¡`Be cust if I'd have done either o't,' said Beck Knibbs, a married helper from one of the cottages. `All's fair in love and war. I'd ha' married en 'ust as she did, and if he'd said two words to me about not telling him beforehand anything whatsomdever about my first chap that I hadn't chose to tell, I'd ha' knocked him down wi' the rolling-pin - a scram little feller like he! Any woman could do it.' ¡¡¡¡The laughter which followed this sally was supplemented only by a sorry smile, for form's sake, from Tess. What was comedy to them was tragedy to her; and she could hardly bear their mirth. She soon rose from table, and, with an impression that Clare would follow her, went along a little wriggling path, now stepping to one side of the irrigating channels, and now to the other, till she stood by the main stream of the Var. Men had been cutting the water-weeds higher up the river, and masses of them were floating past her - moving islands of green crowfoot, whereon she might almost have ridden; long locks of which weed had lodged against the piles driven to keep the cows from crossing.

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Spring Breeze

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Spring Breeze
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