Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Smile painting
Rembrandt The Return of the Prodigal Son painting
Edvard Munch The Scream painting
formally it seemed to me, for a mother and daughter, but at least with none of the ill-will that had rejected Anastasia in her childhood. Then presently, with apologies for "bringing up a sore subject," Anastasia declared that the recent appearance in New Tammany of two claimants to the title of Grand Tutor had revived many people's curiosity about the old Cum Laude Project and brought up again the unhappy matters of the "Hector scandal" and her illegitimate paternity --
"That's nobody's," I heard Virginia Hector say firmly. From the sound I guessed that Anastasia went to embrace her then and declared affectionately that indeed of anyone outside the family; but that she herself, of age now and a married woman, was surely entitled to the whole truth of her begetting.
"Youknow I've always loved you, Mother, and youmust know it doesn't matter to me what the truthis; I just want to get it straight! One person comes along and says Dr. Eierkopf's my father --"
"Ha," Miss Hector said scornfully.
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