Thursday 25 September 2008

Sandro Botticelli Pallas and the Centaur painting

Sandro Botticelli Pallas and the Centaur paintingSandro Botticelli Madonna with the Child paintingJean Beraud Le Cafe de Paris painting
impertinent to a watch.”
They undressed and washed their teeth. O’Malley looked repeatedly at his watch and at last said, “Say your dibs.”
Everyone knelt at his bedside and buried his face in the bedclothes. After a minute, in quick succession, they rose and got into bed; all save Tamplin who remained kneeling. O’Malley stood in the middle of the dormitory, irresolute, his hand on the chain of the gas-lamp. Three minutes passed; it was the convention that no one spoke while anyone was still saying his prayers; several boys began to giggle. “Hurry up,” said O’Malley.
Tamplin raised a face of pained rebuke. “Please, O’Malley. I’m saying my dibs.”
“Well, you’re late.”
Tamplin remained with his face buried in the blanket. O’Malley pulled the chain and extinguished the light, all save the pale glow of the bye-pass under the white enamel shade. It was the custom, when doing this, to say “Good-night”; but Tamplin was still ostensibly in prayer; in this black predicament O’Malley stalked to his bed in silence.

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