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Hill's, for the first L14 for the picture, and 25s. for the frame, and for the other L7 for the picture, it being a copy of his only, and 5s. for the frame; in all, L22 10s. I am very well satisfied in my pictures, and so took them in another coach home along with me, and there with great pleasure my wife and I hung them up, and, that being done, to dinner, where Mrs.
We then did our business without the order in less than eight minutes, which he made me to no purpose stay above two hours for the doing. This made him mad, and so we exchanged notes, and I had notes for L14,000 of the Treasurer of the Company, and so away and by water to Greenwich and wrote my letters, and so home late to bed. 6th.
Landlords are up to this: a landlord triumphantly told me, "I got L7000 from that company for cutting me up; but I would have given them L14,000 to cut me up more." A great deal of the opposition between rival companies has been from their point of view an error, as they have subsequently discovered for themselves.
The worthy Secretary Pepys appears here, in "an excellent conceited picture," of which he himself has told the story in his Diary: "1666, March 17. To Hales's, and paid him L14 for the picture, and L1 5s. for the frame. This day I began to sit, and he will make me, I think, a very fine picture.
Thence to Hales's, where I met my wife and people; and do find the picture, above all things, a most pretty picture, and mighty like my wife; and I asked him his price: he says L14, and the truth is, I think he do deserve it. Thence toward London and home, and I to the office, where I did much, and betimes to bed, having had of late so little sleep, and there slept 16th. Till 7 this morning.
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