Bierstadt Autumn Woods painting

Bierstadt Autumn Woods painting
Knight Knight Picking Flowers painting
Waterhouse Waterhouse Narcissus painting
Sargent Two Women Asleep in a Punt under the Willows painting
Now it was two old men accosting each other:
“Maître Thibaut Fernicle, do you know that it is very cold?” (Gringoire had known it ever since the winter set in.)
“You are right there, Maître Boniface Disome. Are we going to have another winter like three years ago, in ’80, when wood cost eight sols a load?”
“Bah, Maître Thibaut! it is nothing to the winter of 1407 —when there was frost from Martinmas to Candlemas, and so sharp that at every third word the ink froze in the pen of the registrar of the parliament, which interrupted the recording of the judgments—”
Farther on were two gossips at their windows with candles that spluttered in the foggy air.
“Has your husband told you of the accident, Mlle. La Boudraque?”
“No; what is it, Mlle. Turquant?”
“Why, the horse of M. Gilles Godin, notary at the Châtelet, was startled by the Flemings and their procession and knocked down Maître Phillipot Avrillot, a Celestine lay-brother.”
“Is that so?”