Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-2.
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nearest lar ge tORn, and if the Ireneelgnment.· were eati.f actory, he would
f\1rnhh
what
I .anted.
By
th1. tlme. l _.
tired of
the
whole thing, and
bad
made
up
m:t
lllind to lfI'ite to Paris , and have a banknote Ifilnt me in
II.
letter.
I
therefore dll:ral ..ed
the
matter (Tom IIl7 mind 'II'hen a few
day.
later I .... pauil18
the
shop of
JItf
second f riend, and
he
etoppeil!lle to
S8¥
that
hll "reneelgnmenU"
bad
heen eminently
lathfa.ctoI7.
and that
he
bad
been told, not only to
let
me bave 1Ll1 the
mon~
I wanted , · but t o
treat
~
with
all
the
at t ention i n
hi.
p our.
He
aT'rwhelmed lUI with
Bpglo_
gie.
for
hil
he.itsUeD in
the
firet
instance .
and
begged me to come and
d1ne with
him.
I told h1lII
that
I no 1cn&er required
a:Jl3
moner. a& I
had
wppUed IlIii'sel! . but
t hat
I
would
b e very happy to came Mil. dine
with
him .
I tho1J,&:ht
that
an i ndght into a regular bourgeois fflllllly would be
very Intereltin&. and '0
it
proved . The man had never been t1f ty mil", f r Ol:!
PIOlllbliru
in hi. Ufe , Illld
he
looke~
on onll
1100
had
travelle~
lIith
a
.
ort of reverence .
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lIal
~erT ~i ous
to knOll if I
had
ever teen
Velu~iu. .
I
tol ~
h1m
I
had
not only .een i t but I
ba~
\
leen to the top
of
it,
and
~01l'Jl
into it.
He
tho~t
nothinc could \le good enough for
II
can
who
had
such
an
int1mate IlCqua1ntance lIith VeluviUll .
I
told him
I
ha~
aho boen in other parts of
the
1
I0rld.- India and China.
He .
hOllever ,
tho1l€l'.t they could not ho l d a
can~le
to Vesuvius , and
I
doubt if he knew
lIhere ti:e,r lIere.
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me
to take lome
money
from
him.
and laid
it
w ... the only w8¥ to prove that
I did
not bear malice
tor
hi.
first
refulal .
So
I ,
finally , t ook a small amount trOlll
him.
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a~
I
noticed
that he had charged
me
no cmmlhlion in hil bordereau.
I
called hil at –
tention to it , when
he
laid ,
"
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can
I
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