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Since Timar had risen in the world, and become his own master, Brazovics cultivated the friendship of his former supercargo, and invited him to his evening receptions, which Timar accepted willingly enough. He met Timéa there very often, who had already learned a little colloquial Hungarian.
The father is dead, the girl, if you do not rouse her, will never wake again; thus you would become at one stroke a rich man. Only rich people are worth anything in this world poor devils are only fit for clerks." Timar answered the spirits of the night "Well, then, I will always remain a clerk;" and, in order to silence these murmuring shadows, he closed the shutters.
He had lost part at the gambling-table, and got rid of the rest with the help of the Creoles; but it is quite possible that the rogue has managed to conceal considerable sums, in the hope of being able to get at them when again at liberty. However, he must wait some time, for the court here has sentenced him to fifteen years at the galleys." Timar could read no further.
Timar puzzled his head as to the position of this woman, who chose her words so well and expressed herself so sensibly. He could not reconcile it with this hut, which was more like a cave, and with the residence on this lonely island in the midst of a wilderness. "Many thanks, good lady; I'll hurry back and bring up my passengers."
Look, look, Athalie, what Timar has brought!" Michael let Timéa pass, then he entered and politely wished the company good-evening. Timéa looked round with the shyness of a first meeting. Besides the mistress of the house there were a girl and a man in the room.
She has nothing but what she stands up in." "It annoys me," said Athalie, "that she is so unimpressionable. You may scold her or laugh at her, it is all the same. She never blushes." "That is a peculiarity of the Greek race," remarked Timar. "Nonsense!" said Athalie, contemptuously. "It is a sign of sickliness.
"First, a respectable suit, for what I am wearing bears signs of the severity of the weather." Timar went to the closet, took out his pelisse trimmed with astrakhan, and the rest of the suit, laid them on the ground between himself and Krisstyan, and pointed to them in silence.
"Krisstyan!" said Timar, very low. "Yes, to be sure; your dear Theodor your dear adopted son, Theodor Krisstyan! How good of you to recognize me!" "What do you want?" "First, I want to have that gun in my own hands, lest it should remind you of the words with which we parted last time 'If I ever appear before you again, shoot me down. Since then I have changed my mind."
As the oriental plague is more easily communicated by coins than by anything else, the sailors coming from the Levant must throw the money into a jug of water, in order that the western health-officer may take it out cleansed: just as at the Szkela every one must fish the money he receives out of a basin. Timar thrust his clinched fist into the water, and brought it out open.
Perhaps in this way some of the poor child's property may be saved. But I have a letter to deliver to you which was given me in Orsova." Katschuka read the letter, and then said to Timar, "Very good, my friend. Do your business in the town, but afterward come to me for half an hour; I live near the Anglia over the door hangs a shield with a large double eagle.
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