. Art and artists of our time . e four people independently of the play oflights-and-darks, and broken tones that make, in our plate at least, a mosaic of no little rich-ness. The manners of the old world differ so much from the more formal and rigid mannersof our world, where e-sery man is afraid of his neighbors criticism, that we cannot understandhow these three people, the old grandam, her son, and her daugliter-in-law should be so muchinterested in the letter which Bettina, the servant, has just received from her sweetheart, whohas gone to the war. So impatient is she to read it, and so e
. Art and artists of our time . e four people independently of the play oflights-and-darks, and broken tones that make, in our plate at least, a mosaic of no little rich-ness. The manners of the old world differ so much from the more formal and rigid mannersof our world, where e-sery man is afraid of his neighbors criticism, that we cannot understandhow these three people, the old grandam, her son, and her daugliter-in-law should be so muchinterested in the letter which Bettina, the servant, has just received from her sweetheart, whohas gone to the war. So impatient is she to read it, and so eager are they to hear it, that nonote is taken of the fact that the cabbage and the other vegetables she was sent into thegarden to cut, have been brought into the sitting-room and put dowji upon the floor, regard- 228 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. less, for the moment, of propriety; nobody minds it, however; nor does it matter that thecoffee-pot and the table-cioth, the last vestiges of the breakfast, have not yet been news. from the picture by gossow. The letter is the thing, and as it is evident that it contains nothing but good news it shall beread and heard in spite of cabbages, coffee-pots, table-cloths and the proprieties in general.
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