Dec 3, 2007

virgin of the rocks

'You hardly behave as if your purse had been touched,' she said smilingly. ¡¡¡¡'Then it so happens that I am behaving differently, for my purse and my soul have both been touched. At the current price of skins in the London market, and based on a fair estimate of what the afternoon's catch would have been had not the Macedonia hogged it, the Ghost has lost about fifteen hundred dollars' worth of skins.' ¡¡¡¡'You speak so calmly- ' she began. ¡¡¡¡'But I do not feel calm; I could kill the man who has robbed me,' he interrupted. 'Yes, yes, I know, and that man my brother- more sentiment! Bah!' ¡¡¡¡His face underwent a sudden change. His voice was less harsh and wholly sincere as he said: ¡¡¡¡'You must be happy, you sentimentalists, really and truly happy at dreaming and finding things good, and, because you find some of them

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virgin of the rocks"