Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Leonardo da Vinci The Virgin and Child With St Anne

Leonardo da Vinci The Virgin and Child With St AnneLeonardo da Vinci St John the BaptistLeonardo da Vinci Madonna with Yarnwinder
the kitchen table wondering about the best order to look through the downstairs rooms.
As he was finishing his meal, the phone rang.
He sat absolutely still, his heart thumping. He counted: twenty-six rings, and then it stopped. He put his plate in the sink andsecond, he knew that the men were downstairs, opening the kitchen door.
He lifted Moxie out of the way and softly hushed her sleepy protest. Then he swung his legs over the side of the bed and put on his shoes, straining every nerve to hear the sounds from downstairs. They were very quiet sounds: a chair being lifted and replaced, a short whisper, the creak of a floorboard. started to search again. Four hours later he still hadn't found the green leather case. It was half past one, and he was exhausted. He lay on his bed fully clothed and fell asleep at once, his dreams tense and crowded, his mother's unhappy, frightened face always there just out of reach.And almost at once, it seemed (though he'd been asleep for nearly three hours), he woke up knowing two things simultaneously.First, he knew where the case was. And

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