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unfortunate misunderstanding had besides cooled
down for some time the cordial relations between
myself and the two foreign chemists.
One day I was greatly surprised to receive a
visit from old Doctor Pilkington who had very
particular reasons for hating me. He said that
he and his colleagues had so far waited in vain
for my calling on them according to the
unwritten rules of etiquette. Since the mountain
had not come to Mahomet, Mahomet had come
to the mountain. He had nothing in common
with Mahomet except his long, white, venerable
beard, he looked more like a false prophet than a
real one. He said he had come in his quality of
the doyen of the resident foreign doctors in Rome
to invite me to become a member of their recently
formed Society for Mutual Protection with the
object of putting an end to the war which had
been raging amongst them for so long. All his
colleagues had become members except that old
ruffian Doctor Campbell with whom none of
them were on speaking terms. The thorny
question of their professional fees had already been
settled to everybody’s satisfaction by a mutual
agreement fixing the minimum fee at twenty
francs, maximum fee at the discretion of each
member according to circumstances. No
embalmment of man, woman or child was to be
made for less than five thousand francs. He was
sorry to have to tell me that the Society had of
late received several complaints of gross
carelessness on my part in collecting my fees and even for
not having collected any fees at all. Not later
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