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The establishment was small, the country was impoverished; even clock-making grew tedious at last. He brooded for in spite of his piety the Duke was not without a vein of superstition over the prophecy of a gipsy at Gibraltar who told him that he was to have many losses and crosses, that he was to die in happiness, and that his only child was to be a great queen.
But it is not only in metals that we can work fairly well indeed very well, if we are to take the word of some of your own countrymen who have seen and judged our work we are also pretty good at pottery and cabinet-making. As you have seen, we can weave good cloth of cotton and silk, and some of our ingenious men have even tried their hands at clock-making and musical instruments."
She did not expect to take her piano to pieces because she was musical! She was as careful not to tinker it as I was not to tinker the clock, which only an expert in clock-making was prepared to handle. "... Only a few weeks since I received a letter from a lady who wished to come to make me a visit, and to 'scan the heavens, as she termed it.
Next week the Museum will be closed for renovation and repairs, and the week after it will reopen under the popular P.T.B., once more. I will now give the true statement of facts and particulars of his connection with the Jerome Manufacturing Company which, however, was not his first experience in clock-making.
Not one of the good citizens will deny that this great business of clock-making which I first brought to New Haven has been of immense advantage and of great importance to the city. Through its agency millions of money has been brought here, adding materially to the general prosperity and wealth, besides bringing it into notice wherever its productions are sent.
Few are ignorant of that weakness of the vulgar which leads them to admire in the great not so much the qualities which deserve admiration as those which, in the eyes of the better-informed, are defects; so that the amours of Caesar, the clock-making of Charles, and the jests of Coligny are more in the mouths of men than their statesmanship or valour.
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