Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida The Two Sisters

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida The Two SistersJoaquin Sorolla y Bastida MariaAlexandre Cabanel OpheliaAlexandre Cabanel Cleopatra
You lazy bugger!"
The younger one sat up.
"Honest, Uncle-”
"I turn my back for half an hour and you go to sleep on the job!"
"What job? We haven't had anything since Mr. Piloxi the farmer last week-”
"How d'you know? How d'you know? While you were snoring dozens of people could've been goin' past, every one of 'em in need of a pers'nal philosophy!"
"-and he only paid in olives."
"I shall prob'ly get a good price for them olives!"
"They're rotten, Uncle."
"Nonsense! You said they were green!"
"Yes, but they're supposed to be black."
In the shadows, the tortoise's head turned back and forth like a spectator's at a tennis match.
The young man stood up.
"Mrs. "Shifted that one, eh?"
"She said she'd give it a try. She gave me a whole dried squid for it. She said I looked like I needed feeding up."
"Right? You're learning. That's lunch sorted out at any rate. See, Urn? Told you it would work if we stuck at it."
"I don't call one dried squid and a box of greasy olives much of a return, master. Not for two weeks' thinking."
"We got three obols for doing that proverb for old Grillos the cobblerBylaxis came in this morning," he said. "She said the proverb you did for her last week has stopped working."Didactylos scratched his head."Which one was that?" he said."You gave her `It's always darkest before dawn.' ""Nothing wrong with that. Damn good philosophy.""She said she didn't feel any better. Anyway, she said she'd stayed up all night because of her bad leg and it was actually quite light just before dawn, so it wasn't true. And her leg still dropped off. So I gave her part exchange on `Still, it does you good to laugh.' "Didactylos brightened up a bit.

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida The Two Sisters

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida The Two SistersJoaquin Sorolla y Bastida MariaAlexandre Cabanel OpheliaAlexandre Cabanel CleopatraThomas Gainsborough The Watering Place
, good,’ said Victor weakly.
‘You play this bandit chieftain,’ said Dibbler, ‘only a nice guy, too, kind to women and so forth, and you raid this village and you carry off this slave girl only when you look into her eyes, see, you fall for her, and then there’s this raid and hundreds of men on elephants come charging-’
‘Camels,’only one camel in Holy Wood and that’s only ‘cos a guy from Klatch rode all the way here on it,’ said the youth.
‘You should have sent away for more!’ snapped Dibbler.
‘Mr Silverfish said I wasn’t to.’
Dibbler growled. said a skinny youth behind Dibbler. ‘It’s camels.’ ‘I ordered elephants!’ ‘You got camels.’ ‘Camels, elephants,’ said Dibbler dismissively. ‘We’re talking exotic here, OK? And-’ ‘And we’ve only got one,’ said the youth. ‘One what?’ ‘Camel. We could only find one camel,’ said the youth. ‘But I’ve got dozens of guys with bedsheets on their heads waiting for camels!’ shouted Dibbler, waving his hands in the air. ‘Lots of camels, right?’ ‘We only got one camel ‘cos there’s