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Ch. 11: Beautiful Blonde Emeralds

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XI
The Beautiful Blonde Liked Emeralds
chance to get away from Vienna came at last when a letter I had written to the head of an im­portant firm of precious-stone dealers in London
(who was a relation of mine) brought me the welcome offer to join their Paris branch.
I was over the moon. My mother, although she was in great distress at the thought of losing me, refused to stand in my way, and so the great day came when with a good wardrobe, a little money I had saved up and with the most wonderful plans for the future, I set out for Paris.
At first I was terribly disappointed with the city of whose beauty and charm I had heard and read so much, and during the first weeks I was so despondent that it would not have taken much to lure me back to Vienna.
One of my letters of introduction was a passport to the acquaintance of a certain Monsieur Gotin whom I had met at the home of my principal in Vienna. He was a bachelor in a good position, and my old chief had thought
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