My Sweet Rose painting

My Sweet Rose painting
Naiade oil painting
Nighthawks Hopper
Nude on the Beach
Tess, who mused on the christening a good deal, wondered if it were doctrinally sufficient to secure a Christian burial for the child. Nobody could tell this but the parson of the parish, and he was a new-comer, and did not know her. She went to his house after dusk, and stood by the gate, but could not summon courage to go in. The enterprise would have been abandoned if she had not by accident met him coming homeward as she turned away. In the gloom she did not mind speaking freely. ¡¡¡¡`I should like to ask you something, sir.' ¡¡¡¡He expressed his willingness to listen, and she told the story of the baby's illness and the extemporized ordinance. ¡¡¡¡`And now, sir,' she added earnestly, `can you tell me this - will it be just the same for him as if you had baptized him?'