Guido Reni reni Aurora painting

Guido Reni reni Aurora paintingFrancois Boucher Madame de Pompadour paintingFrancois Boucher Adoration of the Shepherds painting
Last night the angel did not sing," she said. "He told me, instead, about doubt, and how the Devil makes use of it. I said, but they doubt me, what can I do? He answered: only proof can silence doubt."
She had their full attention. Next she told them what Mirza Saeed had suggested in the night. "He told me to go and ask my angel, but I know better," she cried. "How could I choose between you? It is all of us, or none."
"Why should we follow you," the Sarpanch asked, "after all the dying, the baby, and all?" "Follow me," Ayesha concluded, "and judge me by their parting." His offer had contained an old question: _What kind of idea are you?_ And she, in turn, had offered him an old answer. _I was tempted, but am renewed; am uncompromising; absolute; pure_.
"Because when the waters part, you will be saved. You will enter into the Glory of the Most High."
"What waters?" Mirza Saeed yelled. "How will they divide?"