The House of Heine Brothers, in Munich Book PDF Download

The office, I have said, was in the Schrannen Platz, or old Market-
place. Munich, as every one knows, is chiefly to be noted as a new
town,–so new that many of the streets and most of the palaces look
as though they had been sent home last night from the builders, and
had only just been taken out of their bandboxes It is angular,
methodical, unfinished, and palatial. But there is an old town;
and, though the old town be not of surpassing interest, it is as
dingy, crooked, intricate, and dark as other old towns in Germany.
Here, in the old Market-place, up one long broad staircase, were
situated the two rooms in which was held the bank of Heine Brothers.

Of the elder member of the firm we shall have something to say
before this story be completed. He was an old bachelor, and was
possessed of a bachelor’s dwelling somewhere out in the suburbs of
the city. The junior brother was a married man, with a wife some
twenty years younger than himself, with two daughters, the elder of
whom was n