Fra Angelico paintings

Fra Angelico paintings
Frederic Edwin Church paintings
Frederic Remington paintings
What a ghastly thing facetious photographs are. What on earth am I doing with that girl?”
“Throwing her in the lake. I remember the incident now. I took the photograph.”
“Who?”
“I’ve no idea. Perhaps it says on the back. Just ‘Basil and Betty.’ She must have been much younger than us, not our kind at all. I’ve got an idea she was the daughter of some duke or other. The Stayles—that’s who she was.”
Basil studied the picture and shuddered. “What can have induced me to behave like that?”
“Youthful high spirits.”
“I was thirty-four, God help me. She’s very plain.”
“I’ll tell you who she is—was. Charles Albright’s mother. That’s an odd coincidence if you like. Let’s look her up and make sure.”
She found a Peerage and read: “Here we are. Fifth daughter of the late duke. Elizabeth Ermyntrude Alexandra, for whom H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught stood sponsor. Born