Showing posts with label impressionist landscape painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label impressionist landscape painting. Show all posts

Jan 7, 2008

impressionist landscape painting

When Saint Antoine had again enfolded the Defarges in his dusky wings, and they, having finally alighted near the Saint's boundaries, were picking their way on foot through the black mud and offal of his streets, Madame Defarge spoke to her husband: ¡¡¡¡"Say then, my friend; what did Jacques of the police tell thee?" ¡¡¡¡"Very little to-night, but all he knows. There is another spy commissioned for our quarter. There may be many more,
for all that he can say, but he knows of one." ¡¡¡¡"Eh well!" said Madame Defarge, raising her eyebrows with a cool business air. "It is necessary to register him. How do they call that man?" ¡¡¡¡"He is English." ¡¡¡¡"So much the better. His name?" ¡¡¡¡"Barsad," said Defarge, making it French by pronunciation. But, he had been so careful to get it accurately, that he then spelt it with perfect correctness. ¡¡¡¡"Barsad," repeated madame. "Good. Christian name?"

Dec 14, 2007

impressionist landscape painting

It was a genteel old-fashioned house, very quiet and orderly. From the windows of my room I saw all London lying in the distance like a great vapour, with here and there some lights twinkling through it. I had only time, in dressing, to glance at the solid furniture, the framed pieces of work (done, I supposed, by Steerforth's mother when she was a girl), and some pictures in crayons of ladies with powdered hair and bodices, coming and going on the walls, as the newly-kindled fire crackled and sputtered, when I was called to dinner.
¡¡There was a second lady in the dining-room, of a slight short figure, dark, and not agreeable to look at, but with some appearance of good looks too, who attracted my attention: perhaps because I had not expected to see her; perhaps because I found myself sitting opposite to her; perhaps because of something really remarkable in her. She had black hair and eager black eyes, and was thin, and had a scar upon her lip. It was an old scar - I should rather call it seam, for it was not discoloured,