Daniel Ridgway Knight Hailing the Ferry painting

Daniel Ridgway Knight Hailing the Ferry paintingSir Henry Raeburn The Reverend Robert Walker Skating paintingPeter Paul Rubens Landscape with a Rainbow painting
knew how much I valued what she broke." The emissaries argued, pleaded, raged. If she had not known how much meaning he had invested in the trifle, how could she in all fairness be blamed? And had she not made countless attempts, over the years, to apologize and atone? And she was dying, for heaven's sake; could not this ancient, childish rift be healed at the last? They had lost a friendship; could they not even say goodbye? "No," said the unforgiving man. -- "Really because of the vase? Or are you concealing some other, darker matter?" -- "It was the vase," he answered, "the vase, and nothing but." Pamela thought the man petty and cruel, but Chamcha had even then appreciated the curious privacy, the inexplicable inwardness of the issue. "Nobody can judge an internal injury," he had said, "by the size of the superficial wound, of the hole."
_Sunt lacrimae rerum_, as the ex-teacher Sufyan would have said, and