The Water lily Pond

The Water lily Pond
Venus and Cupid
Vermeer girl with the pearl earring
virgin of the rocks ¡¡¡¡ "The place I mean is that one yonder." He was getting so romantically attached to Christminster that, like a young lover alluding to his mistress, he felt bashful at mentioning its name again. He pointed to the light in the sky--hardly perceptible to their older eyes. ¡¡¡¡ "Yes. There do seem a spot a bit brighter in the nor'- east than elsewhere, though I shouldn't ha' noticed it myself, and no doubt it med be Christminster." ¡¡¡¡ Here a little book of tales which Jude had tucked up under his arm, having brought them to read on his way hither before it grew dark, slipped and fell into the road. The carter eyed him while he picked it up and straightened the leaves. ¡¡¡¡ "Ah, young man," he observed, "you'd have to get your head screwed on t'other way before you could read what they read there." ¡¡¡¡ "Why?" asked the boy.