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Updated: May 24, 2025
On the following morning, Vivian met with his friend Essper George, behind a small stall in the Bazaar. "Well, my Lord, what do you wish? Here are Eau de Cologne, violet soap, and watch-ribbons; a smelling bottle of Ems crystal; a snuff-box of fig-tree wood. Name your price: the least trifle that can be given by a man who breaks a bank must be more than my whole stock-in-trade is worth.
"I have not paid you yet, Essper, for my glass chain. There is your share of my winnings, the fame of which, it seems, has reached even you!" added Vivian, with no pleased air. "I thank you, sir, for the Nap; but I hope I have not offended by alluding to a certain event, which shall be passed over in silence," continued Essper George, with a look of mock solemnity.
At this moment three or four fowls, roused by the fall of the tank and the consequent shouts of Essper, began fluttering about the rack, and at last perched upon the cradle. "The live stock got loose'" shouted Essper. "and the breeze getting stiffer every instant! Where is the captain? I will see him. I am not one of the crew: I belong to the Court!
"Nay, nay, kind sir! they do but show that each of us has his own way of telling a story, and that he who would hear a tale must let the teller's breath come out of his own nostrils." "Well, Essper, speak on! Stranger things have happened to me than to be reproved by my own servant."
So saying Essper made a desperate effort to crawl up the hold. His exertion set the cradle rocking with renewed violence; and at lust dashing against the sheep-tank, that pastoral piece of furniture was overset, and part of its contents poured upon the inmate of the cradle. "Sprung a leak in the hold, by St. Nicholas!" bawled out Essper George. "Caulkers ahoy!"
"Give me that large fishing-net," said Essper to Vivian; "quick, quick." Vivian pulled down a large coarse net, which covered nearly five sides of the room. It was immediately unfolded, and spread over the fallen crew. To fasten it down with half a dozen boar-spears, which they drove into the floor, was the work of a moment.
"I really think you have but a faint appetite for good fortune. They deserve her most who value her least." "Have you any patrons at Ems, Essper, that have induced you to fix on this place in particular for your speculations? Here, I should think, you have many active rivals," said Vivian, looking round the various stalls.
"I must have the pleasure of keeping you all in suspense," said Vivian: "cannot any of you guess?" "None, none, none!" "What say you, then, to Essper George?" "Is it possible?" "It is the fact that he, and he alone, is our preserver. Soon after my arrival at this place this singular being was seized with the unaccountable fancy of becoming my servant.
The door was at length slowly opened, and a most ill-favoured and inhospitable-looking dame demanded, in a sullen voice, "What's your will?" "You pretty creature!" said Essper, who was still a little tipsy. The door would have been shut in his face had not he darted into the house before the woman was aware.
"Whom?" asked Vivian, with eagerness, for, as is always the case when such questions are asked us, he was thinking of every person in the world except the right one. "It might be " "To think that I should see him!" continued Essper. "It is a man, then," thought Vivian; "who is it at once, Essper?" "I thought you would not guess, sir! It will quite cure you to hear it; Master Rodolph!"
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