An envious feeling had always been exhibited by others in the same business towards me, and those who had made the most out of my improvements and had injured my reputation by making an inferior article, were the very ones who rejoiced the most then.

Not a single man of them ever did or could look me in the face and say that I had ever injured him.

This feeling towards me was all because I was in their way and my clocks at that time were preferred before any others.
They really thought I never could start again, and many said that Jerome would never make any more clocks.

I learned this maxim long ago, that when a man injures another unreasonably, to act out human nature he has got to keep on misrepresenting and abusing him to make himself appear right in the sight of the world.

Soon after the fire in Bristol I had gained my strength sufficiently to go ahead again, and commenced to make additions to my case factory in New Haven (to make the movements,) and by the last of June was ready to commence operations on the brass movements.