Henri Matisse Blue Nude I 1952 painting

Henri Matisse Blue Nude I 1952 paintingCassius Marcellus Coolidge A Friend in Need paintingEdvard Munch Puberty 1894 painting
genuflect, when to press his forehead to the ground, stumbled through the ceremony with growing self-disgust. At the end of the prayers, however, something happened that stopped the Ayesha Haj in its tracks.
As the pilgrims watched the congregation leaving the courtyard of the mosque, a commotion began outside the main gate. Mirza Saeed went to investigate. "What's the hoo--hah?" he asked as he struggled through the crowd on the mosque steps; then he saw the basket sitting on the bottom step. -- And heard, rising from the basket, the baby's cry.
The foundling was perhaps two weeks old, clearly illegitimate, and it was were limited. The crowd was in a doubtful, confused mood. Then the mosque's Imam appeared at the head of the flight of steps, and beside him was Ayesha the seer, whose fame had spread throughout the city.