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Updated: May 24, 2025
I certainly could not have done you much service with my riding whip. Hilloa! Essper, where are you?" "Here, noble sir! here, here. Why, what have you got there? The horses have jibbed, and will not stir. I can stay no longer: they may go to the devil!" So saying, Vivian's valet dashed over the underwood, and leaped al the foot of the Prince.
"Why" said Essper, "in the way of accommodation, little, for two excellent beds will content us; but in the way of refreshment, by St. Hubert! as another friend of mine would swear, he would be a bold man who would engage to be as hungry before his dinner as I shall be after my supper."
"Is that your master?" asked the woman. "Ay, is it! and the prettiest piece of flesh I have seen this month, except yourself." "Well! if the gentleman likes bread he can sit down here," said the woman, pointing to a bench, and throwing a sour black loaf upon the table. "Now, sir!" said Essper, wiping the bench with great care, "lie you here and rest yourself.
Your grandfather will not help you here. Blood out of a wall and money out of a student come the same day. Ah! is your Excellency here?" said Essper, turning round to our two travellers with affected surprise, although he had observed them the whole time. "Is your Excellency here? I have been looking for you through Frankfort this whole morning. There! it will do for your glass.
"You are!" said the porter, in a tone of great surprise; "then you ought to be ashamed of yourselves for disturbing holy men at their devotions!" "Is this the way," said Essper, "to behave, ye shameless rascals, to a noble and mighty Prince, who happens to have lost his way in your abominable forest, but who, though he has parted with his suite, has still in his pocket a purse full of ducats?
"Does the ship ask the wind for a character when he bears her over the sea without hire and without reward? and shall you require a character from me when I request to serve you without wages and without pay?" "Such an engagement, Essper, it would be impossible for me to enter into, even if I had need of your services, which at present I have not.
But he did not exchange a syllable with Essper George, merely because he was not in the humour to speak. He could not refrain from musing on the singular events of the last few days; and, above all, the character of Beckendorff particularly engrossed his meditation.
In about twelve hours' time he was scolding Essper George for having presumed to wake him so early, quite unconscious that he had enjoyed anything more than a twenty minutes' doze. "I should not have come in, sir, only they are all out. They were off by six o'clock this morning, sir; most part at least.
Essper soon found that the gate was closely fastened; and though he knocked often and loudly, it was with no effect. That the inhabitants of the mansion had not yet retired was certain, for lights were moving in the great house; and one of the lodges was not only very brilliantly illuminated, but full, as Vivian was soon convinced, of clamorous if not jovial guests.
"Like all great travellers." said Essper, "I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." "Have you any objection to go to the East again?" asked Vivian. "It would require but little persuasion to lead me there." "I would rather go to a place where the religion is easier; I wish, sir, you would take me to England!" "Nay, not there with me, if with others."
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