Page 108 - John Heard, An Account of His Life and the History of Augustine Heard & Co., 1891.

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and .ae afraid of the
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p.ec~
rendering
him
unpopular .
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cour",
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PoIllpe1,
to Salerno and
halt1, and, of court., up
Vesut'ius.
In fact, •• did tM place
thorough l y.
1
think
nothing
inspired me with greater interest
than
the
coast opposit e
Sorunto,
that
by AlDalfl .
1
have
told
bow
we met lire.
at Genoa . From Genoa
we
hired
II.
Tetturino
to go over
the
Cornllche road to Niee .
The
journey _.
very pleatant. We reached Nice SatlU'da,y nening. and
11.&
.0
did not care
to see
it,
anJ. 1I'ere rather in a
hurt7.
we took our paenge in a dil1gem:eto
leave for :tarBelll•• early Del:t morning . T'"M frontier
1&
only three or
f our
mile.
trOOI Nice .
What
wae our aetonhh::ent on bBiIl& told we could
go no farther, but 1I/'1111t return to Nice .
It
appeared
tbat
our pa..porU
had
not been
vl.~ed
by the Nice poUce. We e:z:plalned that 'lte onl¥ ar–
rived at Nice the evening before. and
had
not bad time . All 'Ita,
of
no
avai l. We 'IIere .ent back lnglorloud,y.
The
trouble
with
"
ll
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a. that
we
had no
money I
Pa.Yl~
OUI' pan"". to
LIar••
il1ee
had
.
trip..,.d ue to on.llapoleon .
BeiI18
SUnd.ay,
t'~e
ba!\kere' office. were II.ll cloeed. Tl..JI;c.lne took our
.
olitary pIece of lOOney and 'IIent to a tripot , where he epeedil¥ lae t it,
and then 'lie had none. We d1d not care to
et~
over Moncl.tq in Nlce.
Finally. In deeperation , and he.vlll€ no other resource, we sent for the
I38.ster of the hote l and to l d
h1.:o
the calli 'lie were In. and
that
not only
had
'
lie no IllOney to go on with, but we could not Pllf
hi.
bill. To
fl(f
great astonilhment,
he
forked out t'110 hundred frane. Without he.itation,
and 'lie 'IIent on our
w~
reJoiciIl8 . I knO'll of no annoyance .0 grea t
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