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He had recently made the acquaintance of a most agreeable family from Devonshire, which he met at the house of his friend, Sir Joshua Reynolds. It consisted of Mrs. Horneck, widow of Captain Kane Horneck; two daughters, seventeen and nineteen years of age, and an only son, Charles, "the Captain in Lace," as his sisters playfully and somewhat proudly called him, he having lately entered the Guards.
It came too late, and drew from him the following reply; on the top of which was scrawled, "This is a poem! This is a copy of verses!" "Your mandate I got, You may all go to pot; Had your senses been right, You'd have sent before night So tell Horneck and Nesbitt, And Baker and his bit, And Kauffman beside, And the Jessamy Bride, With the rest of the crew.
All this is recorded by the beautiful Mary Horneck, the Jessamy Bride herself; but while she gives these amusing pictures of poor Goldsmith's eccentricities, and of the mischievous pranks played off upon him, she bears unqualified testimony, which we have quoted elsewhere, to the qualities of his head and heart, which shone forth, in his countenance, and gained him the love of all who knew him.
This even passes in absurdity Boswell's charge upon him of being jealous of the beauty of the two Misses Horneck. The Panton Street puppets were destined to be a source of further amusement to the town, and of annoyance to the little autocrat of the stage.
The beautiful face and figure of Catherine Horneck had often appeared in our artist's fancy subjects; their life together seems to have been a very happy one, and we may believe that he never entirely recovered from this loss, for the next thirteen years of his life after her decease were spent by him in comparative retirement.
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