John Hagedorn
speaker
1,833 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 29 Mar
John Hagedorn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Old Pastrini, our former acquaintance, received the traveller at the door, head in hand, and
The traveler alighted, ordered a good dinner, and inquired the address of the House of Thompson and French, which was immediately given to him as it was one of the most celebrated in Rome.
It was situated in the Via dei Bagi, near St.
Peter's.
In Rome, as everywhere else, the arrival of a post-chaise is an event.
Ten young descendants of Marius and the Gracchi, barefooted and out at the elbows, with one hand resting on the hip and the other gracefully curved above the head, stared at the traveller, the post chaise, and the horses.
To these were added about fifty little vagabonds from the Papal States, who earned a pittance by diving into the Tiber at high water from the bridge of St.
Angelo.
Now, as these street Arabs of Rome, more fortunate than those of Paris, understand every language, more especially the French, they heard the traveler order an apartment, a dinner, and finally inquire the way to the house of Thompson of French.
The result was that when the newcomer left the hotel with the Cicerone, a man detached himself from the rest of the idlers, and without having been seen by the traveler, and appearing to excite no attention from the guide, followed the stranger with as much skill as a Parisian police agent would have used.
The Frenchman had been so impatient to reach the house of Thompson and French that he would not wait for the horses to be harnessed, but left word for the carriage to overtake him on the road, or to wait for him at the banker's door.
HE REACHED IT BEFORE THE CARRIAGE ARRIVED.
THE FRENCHMAN ENTERED, LEAVING IN THE ANTIROOM HIS GUIDE, WHO IMMEDIATELY ENTERED INTO CONVERSATION WITH TWO OR THREE OF THE INDUSTRIOUS IDLERS WHO WERE ALWAYS TO BE FOUND IN ROME AT THE DOORS OF BANKING HOUSES, CHURCHES, MUSEUMS, OR THEATERS.
WITH THE FRENCHMAN, THE MAN WHO HAD FOLLOWED HIM ENTERED TOO.
THE FRENCHMAN KNOCKED AT THE INNER DOOR AND ENTERED THE FIRST ROOM.
HIS SHADOW DID THE SAME.
"'Monsieur Thompson and French?'
inquired the stranger.
An attendant arose at a sign from a confidential clerk at the first desk.
"'Whom shall I announce?'
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