Jean Fragonard The Swing 1767 painting

Jean Fragonard The Swing 1767 paintingSalvador Dali meditative rose paintingHenri Rousseau The Sleeping Gypsy painting
353] Hokenberry turned away, lumbering into the living room. Corky stepped inside and closed the door behind himself.The carpet looked as if previously it had been wall-to-wall in a barn.Should the day arrive when mahogany-finish Formica furniture with green-and-blue-striped polyester upholstery became prized by collectors and museums, . The two Rospo.“You say they got a new security chief. I can’t guarantee he didn’t change some procedures.”“I understand.”“You have my twenty thousand?”“I have it right here.” Corky withdrew his right arm from the voluminous sleeve of the slicker, and reached to an interior pocket for the packet of cash, his second payment to Hokenberrybest items in the living room were a recliner littered with crushed corn chips and a big-screen TV.The small windows were half covered by drapes. No lamps were aglow; only the TV screen cast light.Corky was comfortable with the gloom. In spite of his affinity for chaos, he hoped never to see the interior of this house in bright light.“The last batch of information you gave me checks out, as far as I’m able to check it,” Corky said, “and it’s really been helpful.”“Told you I know the estate better than that candy-ass actor knows his own dick.”Until he’d been dismissed, with generous severance pay, for leaving prank messages on the answering machine that his employer had dedicated to phone calls from the dead, Ned Hokenberry had been a security guard at Palazzo