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  1. Tracy Chevalier _ Girl With a Pearl Earring

    There is a difference between Catholic and Protestant attitudes to painting,' he explained as he worked, 'but it is not necessarily as great as you may think. Paintings may serve a spiritual purpose for Catholics, but remember too that Protestants see God everywhere, in everything. By painting everyday things – tables and chairs, bowls and pitchers, soldiers and maids – are they not celebrating God's creation as well?
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  2. Tracy Chevalier _ Girl With a Pearl Earring

    I was chopping vegetables in the kitchen when I heard voices outside our front door – a woman's, bright as polished brass, and a man's, low and dark like the wood of the table I was working on. They were the kind of voices we heard rarely in our house. I could hear rich carpets in their voices, books and pearls and fur.
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  3. Tracy Chevalier _ Girl With a Pearl Earring

    Pieter would be pleased with the rest of the coins, the debt now settled. I would not have cost him anything. A maid came free.
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