Gustav Klimt Danae (detail) painting

Gustav Klimt Danae (detail) paintingSalvador Dali The Persistence of Memory paintingSalvador Dali The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory painting
licked Anastasia's hand when I introduced them, and appreciatively snuffled her escutcheon.
"He's adarling, George!" she cried. "Ilove animals!" I smiled. But delightsome as was reunion with Triple-T and the does -- who wandered up now in twos and threes, smelt of the hide, she tottered from the barn last of all, sniffed my amulet suspiciously, then nearly wept for joy upon realizing who I was. For some minutes we nuzzled wordlessly -- shocking how sere and shrunk her once-peerless udder, whose freckled daint had fired my youthful dreams! When at length I introduced her to My Ladyship, the two appraised each other without expression; then Anastasia took my arm and leaned against me, whereupon dear Hedda, with a feeble snort, gimped back into the barn, nor stirred from her rank old straw again.
I set about my work. First I fed the herd, forking hay down from the loft and and bleated to me as to a keeper -- I had come to do works of preparation. Hedda alone I lingered awhile in communion with: unbelievably aged and infirm, her beauty flown,