contemporary painting

contemporary painting
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fine art landscape painting
chinese landscape painting
¡¡¡¡Then she became aware of the spectacle she presented to their surprised vision: roses at her breast; roses in her hat; roses and strawberries in her basket to the brim. She blushed, and said confusedly that the flowers had been given to her. When the passengers were not looking she stealthily removed the more prominent blooms from her hat and placed them in the basket, where she covered them with her handkerchief. Then she fell to reflecting again, and in looking downwards a thorn of the rose remaining in her breast accidentally pricked her chin. Like all the cottagers in Blackmoor Vale, Tess was steeped in fancies and prefigurative superstitions; she thought this an ill omen - the first she had noticed that day. ¡¡¡¡The van travelled only so far as Shaston, and there were several miles of pedestrian descent from that mountain town into the vale to Marlott. Her mother had advised her to stay here for the night, at the house of a cottage woman they knew, If she should feel too tired to come on; and this Tess did, not descending to her home till the following afternoon. ¡¡¡¡When she entered the house she perceived in a moment from her mother's triumphant manner that something had occurred in the interim. ¡¡¡¡`Oh yes; I know all about it! I told 'ee it would be all right, and now 'tis proved!' ¡¡¡¡`Since I've been away? What has?' said Tess rather wearily. ¡¡¡¡Her mother surveyed the girl up and down with arch approval, and went on banteringly: `So you've brought 'em round!' ¡¡¡¡`How do you know, mother,' ¡¡¡¡`I've had a letter.' ¡¡¡¡Tess then remembered that there would have been time for this. ¡¡¡¡`They say - Mrs d'Urberville says - that she wants you to look after a little fowl-farm which is her hobby. But this is only her artful way of getting 'ee there without raising your hopes. She's going to own 'ee as kin - that's the meaning o'.'