Grand Canal scene painting

Grand Canal scene paintingCarl Fredrik Aagard Villa at Lake Como paintingCarl Fredrik Aagard Lodge on Lake Como painting
nobody laughed at the clown, because where Ayesha was concerned the villagers were willing to believe anything. They had grown convinced that the snow-haired girl was the true successor to old Bibiji, because had the butterflies not reappeared in the year of her birth, and did they not follow her around like a cloak? Ayesha was the vindication of the longsoured hope engendered by the butterflies' return, and the evidence that great things were still possible in this even for the weakest and poorest in the land.
"The angel has taken her away," marvelled the Sarpanch's wife Khadija, and Osman burst into tears. "But no, it is a wonderful thing," old Khadija uncomprehendingly explained. The villagers teased the Sarpanch: "How you got to be village headman with such a tactless spouse, beats us."
"You chose me," he dourly replied.