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EARLY REMINISCENCES
where we put up for the night, and proceeded by road next day to Vienna.
We learned that the barge had arrived with its load miserable, shivering, starving. The young ladies proved to be daughters of a rich jeweller in the principal street. The parents called on my father to thank him for his courtesy, and invited us all to a very sumptuous repast in their house. The girls were profuse in their expressions of gratitude.
