Horace Vernet Judith and Holofernes painting

Horace Vernet Judith and Holofernes painting
Horace Vernet The Lion Hunt painting
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres The Grande Odalisque painting
you’re vindicated.
“Progress,” he told her.
“Beg pardon?”
“Progress. We mustn’t—stand—in the way—of Progress.”
“No,” she said uneasily, “I suppose not.”
Good—God, woman!
“That’s a joke, Catherine, a very—poor—joke.”
Oh.
“I don’t think it’s a time for levity, Joel.”
“Nor do I.”
She tilted her head courteously. Taking care not to yell, he said, “You’re right. Neither—do—I.”
She nodded.
Working his way through another editorial as through barbed wire, Joel thought: I had no her. Why couldn’t I trust her to let me know, quick’s she heard. Hannah, anyhow.
He pushed ahead with his reading.
A heaviness had begun in him from the moment he had heard of the accident; he had said to himself, uh-huh, and without expecting to, had nodded sharply. It had been as if he had known that this or something like it was bound to happen, sooner or later; and he