Johannes Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring Painting

Johannes Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring Painting
Somebody's fancy-man, I s'pose,' said Marian laconically. ¡¡¡¡`I'll lay a guinea he's after Tess.' ¡¡¡¡`O no. 'Tis a ranter parson who's been sniffing after her lately; not a dandy like this.' ¡¡¡¡`Well - this is the same man.' ¡¡¡¡`The same man as the preacher? But he's quite different!' ¡¡¡¡`He hev left off his black coat and white neckercher, and hev cut off his whiskers; but he's the same man for all that.' ¡¡¡¡`D'ye really think so? Then I'll tell her,' said Marian. ¡¡¡¡`Don't. She'll see him soon enough, good-now.' ¡¡¡¡`Well, I don't think it at all right for him to join his preaching to courting a married woman, even though her husband mid be abroad, and she, in a sense, a widow.' ¡¡¡¡`Oh - he can do her no harm,' said Izz drily. `Her mind can no more be heaved from that one place where it do bide than a stooded waggon from the hole he's in. Lord love 'ee, neither court-paying, nor preaching, nor the seven thunders themselves, can wean a woman when 'twould be better for her that she should be