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I was only trying you. Shall we have two coffees large? It isn't so bad as it looks by a long way." The coffee was brought and set steaming before them. In an interval of silence Alban studied the curate's face as he would have studied a book in which he might read some account of his own fortunes. Why had this man stopped him in the street? "Your first visit to Aldgate, sir?" "Not exactly, Mr.
There they were to sell out and with the proceeds buy silks, teas and coffees and make for America. These trips took a year to make, but proved immensely profitable. Girard now bought more ships, and very properly named the first one "Voltaire" and the next "Rousseau." By Seventeen Hundred Ninety-five, he owned twenty-two ships and was worth more than a million dollars.
Again, Gobseck had refused free delivery of his silver-plate, and declined to guarantee the weights of his coffees. There had been a dispute over each article, the first indication in Gobseck of the childishness and incomprehensible obstinacy of age, a condition of mind reached at last by all men in whom a strong passion survives the intellect.
It was interesting to see those little Tlaxcalan fellows solve problems in alligation and percentage, in bonds and mortgages; but it is doubtful whether any of them, in actual life, will have to deal with blending coffees, or with selling bonds, and cutting coupons. Still, from such indian towns great men have come in the past, and great men will come in the future.
The Boston friend accepted, and the luncheon was served by Jane. In the course of the repast the visitor observed: "Pretty good china you have, Perkins." "Yes," returned Thaddeus, "pretty good. I've always had a penchant for china. My mother-in-law thinks I'm extravagant, and sometimes I think she is right. You never saw my Capodimonte coffees, did you?" "No," replied the Bostonian, "I never did.
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