Claude Monet Ice Thawing on the Seine painting

Claude Monet Ice Thawing on the Seine paintingClaude Monet Houses of Parliament London paintingClaude Monet Houses at Argenteuil painting
So now I have a dream-wife, the dreamer becomes conscious enough to think. What the hell to do with her? -- But it isn't up to him. Aycsha and Mishal Akhtar are together in the big house.
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Ever since his birthday Mirza Saeed had been full of passionate desires, "as if life really does begin at forty", his wife so energetic that the servants had to change the bedsheets three times per day. Mishal hoped secretly that this heightening of her husband's libido would lead her to conceive, because she was of the firm opinion that enthusiasm mattered, whatever doctors might say to the contrary, and that the years of taking her temperature every morning before getting out of bed, and then plotting the results on graph paper in order to establish her pattern of ovulation, had actually dissuaded the babies from being born, partly because it