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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name of Larkin on the preceding page
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to me •
character of
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ae the uncle of
the
young man I have
spoken of . '!'hie was
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man known all over China
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Larkin . He
W8' •
huge,
red- t.oed,
good-nat~d
fe110.,
vor,r
popular
~ong
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the
old n.ldents.
He
had for. long time eor,.,.ended onl! of the East Ir,di.
Company's
.
hip_,
but
thi.
time wee out on a l&rk, or for .ome bu,lnel.,
ar.d
wa~
Bt8¥lng
with
UB.
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wall
a
good d ..al 0:- a bon vlvlWt, and had no–
ticed
that
UJY
=ole
had
a .pecial decanter of sherry at
hi.
right hand ,
T"..1.
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becauee
the
custom of tte till'..el required the person who wal
.
Ht1n.; at H.e head of the table to
drink
II glaes of wine with each of
the guest. , and
~
uncle,
wishing
to keep a cool head. had told
hi.
bC1
to put
II dtlclIllter of cold tea, or toast water , at
hi.
elbow, Larkin
had
~,;.e
up
hi.
:..
dnd
that
it
.
at a particularly tlne tap of winB , 8Ild
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YaB determdned to havu some of it . So he watched his chance, and
r~ceeded
in getting a ,lase out of the much coveted dacenter . He he l d it
up
to the
11,&
ht and ..,ecked
hi.
lips in anticipation of
th~
expected pleasure . He took
it all in
a~
one ' ' 'allo' ' ar,d then "damnation" was heard all round .
'!'
he
old gentleman ,
who
had "atcned his manuevers all along, was
highly
delight–
ad and allked
him
it
he Ihould send
him
a calk of wine .
Another ,tory of old Larldn was that on one occadon at
1
~1lO
he c=e
do'llIl
to breakfast one IIIOrnlng and eaid be had had a IIIOst rem"rkable
dream. He said he had dreamed that a robber
had
got into hie roo.ll and that
he had "atched
him
aelecting the good olothes from thoae that
we~e
worn ,
and
paeki~
thlllll in one of hia OWl". trunka to be carried aTB¥ . "BY JOVB , "
said
he ,
"
th@ dream ....a 80 vivid that I oan hardly balieye that
it
was
not real . " Not 10118 after,
he
burBt into the roOOl , exc l a1!l1l.ng ,
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It " ..
a
real , the felloT was tc.ere and
I:l,Y
things have all gone . I In fact, Captain
T~
had quietly aaeieted at his own robbery .
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