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Only direct them to give you a receipt, on which they will write how many cwts. the piano weighs, when it leaves, and when it will arrive at Chateauroux. Bureau Restant chez M. Vollant Patureau." You need not send me the receipt, we should require it only in case of some unforeseen reclamation. If this is so, let him bind himself to deliver the piano at Chateauroux in four or five days.
It was a fixed idea with him, an immutable principle, that every contractor was a cheat. One day a man who had made a bid that was accepted was presented to him. "What is your name?" he asked, with his accustomed brusqueness. "Vollant, citizen First Consul." "Good name for a contractor." "I spell it with two l's, citizen." "To rob the better, sir," retorted Bonaparte, turning his back on him.
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