Frank Dicksee Romeo and Juliet

Frank Dicksee Romeo and JulietPierre Auguste Renoir A Girl with a Watering CanPierre Auguste Renoir La Loge
And you have not known a wife for thousands of years..."
"I have been Regent of the Kingdom."
"And is it not time you had a consort?"
That was the moment she felt most exposed and in most danger. But she trusted to her flesh, and to the strange truth she'd learned about angels, perhaps especially those angels who had once been human: lacking flesh, they coveted it and longed for contact with it. And Metatron was close now, close enough to smell the perfume of her hair and to gaze The angels carrying the litter left the Clouded Mountain and flew south. Metatron's orders had been to take the Authority to a place of safety away from the battlefield, because he wanted him kept alive for a while yet; but rather than give him a bodyguard of many regiments, which would only attract the enemy's attention, he had trusted to the obscurity of the storm, calculating that in these circumstances, a small party would be safer than a large one.at the texture of her skin, close enough to touch her with scalding hands.There was a strange sound, like the murmur and crackle you hear before you realize that what you're hearing is your house on fire."Tell me what Lord Asriel is doing, and where he is," he said."I can take you to him now," she said.