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O Baumbach's, with your deliciously crumbling butter cookies and your kaffee kuchen, and your thick cream, and your thicker waitresses and your cockroaches, and your dinginess and your dowdy German ladies and your black, black Kaffee, where in this country is there another like you! Blackie, true to his promise, had hailed me from the doorway on the afternoon of the following day.
"Zweimal Kaffee?" beamed Roschen, grasping the idea. "Now's your time to speak up," urged Blackie. "Go ahead an' order all the cream gefillte things that looked good to you out in front." But I leaned forward, lowering my voice discreetly. "Blackie, before I plunge in too recklessly, tell me, are their prices very " "Sa-a-ay, child, you just can't spend half a dollar here if you try.
"Blackie, you're a dear to be so polite to an old married cratur' like me. Did you notice that is, does Ernst von Gerhard drop in often at Baumbach's?" I have visited Baumbach's. I have heard Milwaukee drinking its afternoon Kaffee.
As from an ambush there arrived the fat, yellow telegraph envelope. "Ach, was!" protested Herr Haase. "And I thought it was the coffee you were bringing." "'S Kaffee kommt gleich," the stout, tow-haired girl assured him; but already he had torn open the envelope and was surveying its half-dozen sheets of code.
She then turned to Princess Wilhelmina, who was seated behind a large table and was pouring out a cup of coffee, which she continued to do when she saw Edestone until it was called to her attention that the cup was full as well as the saucer. "Billy," she nodded, "you and Mr. Edestone are old friends. Give him a cup of tea; I know he does not like Kaffee und Schlagsahne."
When he spoke to Lawrence, he in his usual jocular manner exclaimed: "Ah, so now you are to have Kaffee Klatsch with the Princess. I told you so. The lady is in love with you, and the Emperor is going to offer you her hand in marriage after he has bestowed on you an Iron Cross in return for one of your quack medicines."
'Can we have Kaffee mit Kranzkuchen? she added to the waiter. And she seated herself on the bench beside Gerald. Birkin, looking at them, felt a pain of tenderness for them. 'I think the place is really wonderful, Gerald, he said; 'prachtvoll and wunderbar and wunderschon and unbeschreiblich and all the other German adjectives. Gerald broke into a slight smile. 'I like it, he said.
At which the landlord scratches his head, for he doesn't understand precisely what you have selected. Now you take your book, and explain slowly and systematically: "Kaffee!" "Ja." "Oegg!" "Ja." "Fisk!" "Ja." "Smor og Brod!" Here the landlord is staggered, and scratches his head again. Smor he gets a glimmering of, but the bread stuns him.
"It's from my mother " and the tears came into her eyes as she said the word. Mrs. Eldred and Hannah exchanged glances of understanding, and Hannah caught up the water pitcher. "I'll get this full of warm water for you," she said briskly, "and you must hurry and get ready to come down stairs, for we are going to have Kaffee just as you do in Berlin. Won't that be fun?"
Their glances grow warmer as the neglected Kaffee grows colder. The color comes and goes in the girl's face and I watch it, a bit enviously, marveling that the old story still should be so new. At a large square table near the doorway a group of eight men were absorbed in an animated political discussion, accompanied by much waving of arms, and thundering of gutturals.
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