Claude Monet Woman Seated under the Willows painting

Claude Monet Woman Seated under the Willows paintingClaude Monet Weeping Willow paintingClaude Monet Water-Lilies 1917 painting
involvement with other human beings. He himself could hardly recognize more than a handful of the villagers, but she knew each person's pet names, family histories and incomes. They even told her their dreams, although few of them dreamed more than once a month on account of being too poor to afford such luxuries. The overflowing fondness he had felt at dawn returned, and he placed his arm around her shoulders. She leaned her head against him and said softly: "Happy birthday." He kissed the top of her hair. They stood embracing, watching the sleeping girl. Ayesha: his wife told him the name.
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After the orphan girl Ayesha arrived at puberty and became, on account of her distracted beauty and her air of staring into another world, the object of many young men's desires, it began to be said that she was looking for a lover from heaven, because she thought herself too good for mortal men