Fantin-Latour Flowers in a Bowl painting

Fantin-Latour Flowers in a Bowl painting
Knight Sunny Afternoon on the Canal painting
Heade A Magnolia on Red Velvet painting
Heade Cattelya Orchid and Three Brazilian Hummingbirds painting
Original! We're all as like each other as those dolls cut out of the same folded paper. We're like patterns stencilled on a wall. Can't you and I strike out for ourselves, May?''
He had stopped and faced her in the excitement of their discussion, and her eyes rested on him with a bright unclouded admiration.
``Mercy -- shall we elope?'' she laughed.
``If you would -- ''
``You do love me, Newland! I'm so happy.''
``But then -- why not be happier?''
``We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?''
``Why not -- why not -- why not?''
She looked a little bored by his insistence. She knew
-82-very well that they couldn't, but it was troublesome to have to produce a reason. ``I'm not clever enough to argue with you. But that kind of thing is rather -- vulgar, isn't it?'' she suggested, relieved to have hit on a word that would assuredly extinguish the whole subject.