Berthe Morisot The Butterfly Chase painting

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bed during their first weeks together: the appetite of each for the other seemingly inexhaustible, they made love six or seven times a day. "You opened me up," she told him. "You with the ham in your mouth. It was exactly as if you were speaking to me, as if I could read your thoughts. Not as if," she amended. "I did read them, right?" He nodded: it was true. "I read your thoughts and the right words just came out of my mouth," she marvclled. "Just flowed out. Bingo: love. In the beginning was the word."
Her mother took a fatalistic view of this dramatic turn of events in , the return of a lover from beyond the grave. "I'll tell you what I honestly thought when you gave me the news," she said over lunchtime soup and kreplach at the Whitechapel Bloom's. "I thought, oh dear, it's grand passion;