Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida Sewing the Sail painting

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida Sewing the Sail paintingJoaquin Sorolla y Bastida Ninos en el Mar paintingJoaquin Sorolla y Bastida Leaving the Bath painting
adjudicate between them, to punish them when he was angry. Once when their quarrelling irritated him he forswore them all for a month. When he went to see "Ayesha" after twenty-nine nights she teased him for not having been able to stay away. "That month was only twenty-nine days long," he replied. Once he was caught with "Mary the Copt" by "Hafsah", in "Hafsah's" quarters and on "Ayesha's" day. He begged "Hafsah" not to tell "Ayesha", with whom he had fallen in love; but she told her anyway and Baal had to stay away from "Mary" of the fair skin and curly hair for quite a time after that. In short, he had fallen prey to the seductions of becoming the secret, profane mirror of Mahound; and he had begun, once again, to write.
The poetry that came was the sweetest he had ever written. Sometimes when he was with Ayesha he felt a slowness come over him, a heaviness, and he had to lie down. "It's strange," he told her. "It is as if I see myself standing beside