Chardsville Revisited part1
Chardsville Revisited (part 1) by Jenny Leeds Chapter 1 Upon hanging the new portrait the ladies stepped back and gazed raptly at their images. The portrait--well, you couldn't really call it that, "portrait," for it had none of the usual formality of such pictures--call it a painting instead--showed them naked in the same stately, high-ceilinged drawing room they were standing in now. In the painting Mrs. Argentina sat at one end of the couch, generous lips parted in...