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Mon ancien maitre, confrere et ami, Duruy, m'ecrit que vous venez d'etre nomme associe etranger de son Academie par vingt-sept voix. C'est un beau succes dont je veux tout de suite me rejouir avec vous, en attendant que je puisse le faire de vive voix. Je compte etre le 20 de ce mois a Bruxelles, et diner avec le Club quelque jour du mois de juin.
Then he asked, with an air of resignation, as if he were throwing himself and his associé away, 'Fifteen francs, then, would monsieur consider too much? 'Certainly, far too much; twelve francs would be enormous.
As this meant that I must have two guides, and suggested that perhaps the right rendering of associé was 'accomplice, the negotiation nearly came to a violent end; but the farmer was so extremely explanatory and convincing, that I gave him another chance, asking him how much the two meant to have, and telling him that, although I could not see the necessity for two guides, I only wished to do what was right.
In the course of the evening Mignot came in, and confidentially took the other chair. He wished to state that he had three associés in working the glacière, and that one of them knew of a similar cave, half an hour from the one more generally known; the associé had found it two years before, and had not seen it since, and he believed that no one else knew where it was to be found.
If I cared to visit it, the associé would accompany us, but there was some particular reason here he relapsed into patois why this other man could not by himself serve as guide to both glacières.
"MON CHER FUTUR ASSOCIE, Ah ca! pensez-vous donc que j'aie tout a fait la berlue pour n'avoir pas decouvert de prime abord tout l'insidieux de votre proposition?
Je ne doute pas que Mademoiselle votre fille ne s'y associe, car nous connaissons et nous apprecions les sentiments dont vous nous avez donne, tons les trois, tant de preuves. Ma femme, qui depuis dix ans a perdu trois soeurs, deux freres, et deux fils, est, comme vous le pensez, bien accablee; mais les enfants qui lui restent l'obligeront heureusement a reprendre a la vie.
In the Studio of May, 1903, J. L. C., who writes of the same exhibition, calls this picture "admirable in both action and color." <b>CARL, KATE A.</b> Honorable mention, Paris Salon, 1890; Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, 1896; honorable mention, Paris Exposition, 1900. Associé de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Born in New Orleans. Pupil of Julian Academy and of Courtois in Paris.
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