Benjamin Williams Leader paintings

Benjamin Williams Leader paintings
Bartolome Esteban Murillo paintings
Berthe Morisot paintings
Cheri Blum paintings
``Well, perhaps I haven't judged her fairly. She's so different -- at least on the surface. She takes up such odd people -- she seems to like to make herself conspicuous. I suppose it's the life she's led in that fast European society; no doubt we seem dreadfully dull to her. But I don't want to judge her unfairly.''
She paused again, a little breathless with the unwonted length of her speech, and sat with her lips slightly parted and a deep blush on her cheeks.
Archer, as he looked at her, was reminded of the glow which had suffused her face in the Mission Garden at St. Augustine. He became aware of the same obscure effort in her, the same reaching out toward something beyond the usual range of her vision.
``She hates Ellen,'' he thought, ``and she's trying to overcome the feeling, and to get me to help her to overcome it.''
The thought moved him, and for a moment he was on the point of breaking the silence between them, and throwing himself on her mercy.
``You understand, don't you,'' she went on, ``why the family have sometimes been annoyed? We all did what we could for her at first; but she never seemed to