Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Vincent van Gogh The Olive Trees painting

Vincent van Gogh The Olive Trees paintingVincent van Gogh Still Life with Open Bible paintingVincent van Gogh Still Life with Iris painting
while we other children kept our distance-dear Germanicus had found another tail-feather for me, sticking in a hawthorn bush, and I was putting it proudly in my hair-Livilla crept up inquisitively behind a rose-hedge and overheard something. She interrupted, laughing noisily: "Wretched Rome, with him as her protector! I hope to God I'll be dead before them"
The Augur turned on her and pointed with his finger. "Impudent girl," he said, "God will no doubt grant your wish in a way that you won't like!"
"You're going to be locked up in a room with nothing to eat. Child," said my mother. Those were ominous words too, now I come to recall them. Livilla was kept in bounds for the rest of her holidays. She revenged herself, on me, in a variety of ingeniously spiteful ways. But she could not tell us what the Augur had said, because she had been bound by an oath by Vesta and our household gods

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