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We talked about commerce and exports, and he observed that although American wheat was sure to inundate the European market, yet Hungarian flour was unrivalled in quality, and would increase in consumption throughout the world. Then we spoke of financial matters, and here Mr. Dumany was completely at home. The Hungarian rente had at that time just been introduced into the market, and Mr.
But where in a foreign country is the professor who teaches the Ugro-Finnish tongue, even if there were some whimsical parent who wished that his son should learn to speak it? During the drive Mr. Dumany acquainted me with some particulars regarding the customs of his house. He told me that the hour for breakfast was nine, and that for lunch one o'clock.
The letter ran about as follows: "MY DEAR NEPHEW, DR. DUMANY, Knowing well that physicians will not move a step without being well paid, I send you the enclosed bank-bill, and pray you to take the trouble to visit me for a few days here in my house. I took the bank-bill, put it into a fresh envelope, and wrote the following lines:
As I uttered these questions in Hungarian, he clapped his hands in gladness, and then, after a little meditation, he answered "My father is called the 'Silver King, and his name is Mr. Dumany. Do you know him?" "Oh!" said the Englishman, as he heard the name, "Mr. Kornel Dumany, the Silver King; I know him very well. He is an American, and very rich. He lives mostly in Paris.
There was a time when I was not the shrewd hard fellow that I am, but a true Dumany and a spendthrift.
"I never wonder at anything," said he, coolly. "At any rate, I should advise you at the first station to telegraph to Mr. Dumany; I will give you his address. So you will be expected when you arrive in Paris, and have no further trouble. Since you are the only person able to talk to the boy, it will be certainly the best thing for him to remain with you.
He opened and read the letters, and, replacing them again on the silver salver upon which the servant had brought them, he ordered him to hand them over to the chambermaid so that Mrs. Dumany might receive and read them. After the valet had left, Mr. Dumany said to me "I have invited these two gentlemen to meet you at dinner.
At that moment Countess Diodora's footman came in, and Siegfried asked if he had come to look for Countess Cenni. Dumany, to be kind enough to come and see her. The ranger has saddled his horse, and is waiting for the prescription to take it to town at once." That was an honour indeed, and I lost no time in following the man, and left Siegfried utterly amazed.
I knew you very well, too at one time: we have been colleagues once." "Indeed? And how is that possible? Pray where was that?" "In Budapest, in the Sándor Uteza Palace, the House of Commons." "You have been a member of the Hungarian Parliament? When? And what name did you then bear?" "The name I bear now, which is my own. Only I used to write it in Hungarian, Dumany Kornel."
I like hospitality at home; but when I come into a foreign country, I prefer the simplest inn or the obscurest hotel to the most magnificent apartments of a palace of a prince of the Bourse, because independence goes with the former, and of all slavery I fear that of etiquette the worst. But Mr. Dumany did not mean to give way to my polite protestations.
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