Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida Children on the Beach painting

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida Children on the Beach paintingThomas Gainsborough The Morning Walk paintingThomas Gainsborough River Landscape painting
afternoon performance. I walked ahead with Vitellius, a senator named Sentius, and the two generals. We went by the covered passage. I noticed Cassius and The Tiger at the entrance. They did not salute me, which I thought strange, for they saluted the others. We reached the Palace. I said, "I am hungry. I smell venison I hope that rehearsal won't take too long." We were in the ante-room to the banqueting-hall. "This is odd," I thought "No captains here, only sergeants." I fumed questioningly to my companions but-another odd thing-found that they had all silently vanished. Just then I heard distant shouting and screams, then more shouting. I wondered what on earth was happening. Someone ran past the window shouting, "It's all over. He's dead!" Two minutes later there came a most awful roar from the theatre, as if the whole audience was being massacred. It went on and on but after a time there was a lull followed by tremendous cheering. I stumbled upstairs to my little reading-room where I collapsed trembling on a chair.
The pillared portrait-busts of Herodotus, Polybius, Thucydides, and Asinius Pollio stood facing me. Their impassive features seemed to say