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"That chance meeting with Kauffman, at Kasker's," she told herself, "led me directly into the nest of traitors. I'm in luck. Not that I'm especially clever, but because they're so astonishingly reckless. That's usually the way with criminals; they close every loop-hole but the easiest one to peep through and then imagine they're safe from discovery!"
The tables were near enough for conversation, so when the maid had gone to the kitchen Josie said sweetly: "That Mr. Kauffman's a nice man, isn't he? I don't wonder you forgot your breakfast. Isn't this Miss Annie Boyle?" "Yes," was the answer. "Do you know Abe Kauffman?" "I've met him," said Josie.
Subsequently she studied painting at Rome, and there made the acquaintance of Battoni, Maron, Fuseli, Wright of Derby, and other artists. Upon her father's death she had resolved to return to the cloister; but her mother brought her on a visit to London, and a friendship she then formed with the popular Angelica Kauffman induced her finally to renounce all idea of a nun's life.
Kauffman," he said, "that I have made a good bargain. I am very much obliged to you, but I think that I shall stick to it!" Mr. Kauffman was silent for several moments. The expression upon his face was not amiable. "I understand," he said at last. "You do not believe me. Yet every word that I have spoken to you is truth.
Neither did he stop to think or reason that his best friends Mr. and Mrs. Miller, Frank Kauffman, and Mr. Kunz were all using tobacco. Instead he arose and, going to the mantel, selected all his smoking-materials there, opened the grate, and dumped them one and all upon the few living coals that were still smoldering among the ashes.
"Well, I've quit kickin' till we're out of the woods. I'm an American, Abe, and the American flag is flying in France. If our boys can't hold it in the face of the enemy, Jake Kasker will go do it himself!" Kauffman stood up, casting a glance of scorn on his customer. "You talk like a fool, Jake; you talk like you was talking for the papers not honest, but as if someone had scared you."
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.
Kauffman, and he asked her advice about having the work done again. "You had better go to your minister and ask him what he thinks," Mrs. Kauffman said. Edwin improved the very first opportunity, which happened to be the following Sunday immediately after the morning service. Replying to him, the minister asked: "Don't you think the baptism in your infancy amounted to anything?"
"He didn't make a single disloyal speech. Hates the war, and I can't blame him for that, but wants to fight it to a finish. Now, the other man Kauffman hates the war, too, but he did not make any remark that was especially objectionable; but that man's face betrayed more than his words, and some of his words puzzled me. Kauffman said, at two different times, that the war would make him money.
The contents of dusty garrets may add piquancy to modern decorations, giving a touch of the unusual which is very charming. Painted furniture is, at present, the vogue, so if you own a piece made by the Adam brothers of England, decorated by the hand of Angelica Kauffman, or Pergolesi, from Greek designs, now is the moment to "star" it.
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