Edwin Lord Weeks paintings

Edwin Lord Weeks paintings
Fabian Perez paintings
Francois Boucher paintings
Frank Dicksee paintings
Still, to have kept her grandmother's carriage at a defaulter's door!'' Mr. van der Luyden protested; and Archer guessed that he was remembering, and resenting, the hampers of carnations he had sent to the little house in Twenty-third Street.
``Of course I've always said that she looks at things quite differently,'' Mrs. Archer summed up.
A flush rose to May's forehead. She looked across the table at her husband, and said precipitately: ``I'm sure Ellen meant it kindly.''
``Imprudent people are often kind,'' said Mrs. Archer, as if the fact were scarcely an extenuation; and Mrs. van der Luyden murmured: ``If only she had consulted some one -- ''
``Ah, that she never did!'' Mrs. Archer rejoined.
At this point Mr. van der Luyden glanced at his wife, who bent her head slightly in the direction of Mrs. Archer; and the glimmering trains of the three ladies swept out of the door while the gentlemen settled down to their cigars. Mr. van der Luyden supplied short ones on Opera nights; but they were so good that they made his guests deplore his inexorable punctuality.
Archer, after the first act, had detached himself from the party and made his way to the back of the club box. From there he watched, over various Chivers,