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Updated: June 20, 2025
"Yes, most gracious lady." "Ridiculous, 'gracious lady'! Come in." Mees obeyed, and took the place of honor on the sofa beside the painter. "I have a favor to ask," she said, with a deprecatory smile, "Don't call me Mees, please. It does not mean anything." "Shall I say Mees Varing?" asked the painter, with a struggle to pronounce the name properly. "Unless you like Kitty better," said Mees.
"Kitty Kitty." Fräulein Vogel repeated it gravely. "Kitty." She smiled. "Kitty Varing, of New York. Now I have it all." "No," said Kitty, "not quite. Of Withlacootchie, New York." They both laughed, the Indian name was so unmanageable. Kitty finally wrote it down, and the painter pronounced it over and over again. At last she straightened up, and said sternly,
"How much a lesson?" she said, half closing one shrewd gray eye. "How much a lesson? Ah, she would not take pupils, no, no, not while she was Hedwig Vogel; and der liebe Gott knows she will never be Hedwig anything else. But she will make an exception for our deer Mees Varing; oh, yes, an exception!
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