THE YOUNG RUSSIAN NOBLE. 62)

I would give him my answer, and hoped he would not be
displeased with me, if he was with my answer. He told me,
it was only his son,
whom, though I had not
seen, yet was in the same
condition with himself,
and above two hundred
miles from him, on the
other side the Oby; but
that, if I consented, he
would send for him.

I made no hesitation,
but told him I would do
it. I made some cere-
mony in letting him
understand that it was |
wholly on his account; y
and that seeing I could :
not prevail on him, I
would show my _ re-
spect to him by my
concern for his son.

   

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But these things are “7 SENT MY SERVANT TO HIS LORDSHIP WITH A
RO MRLER OTTO repeat SMALL PRESENT OF TEA.”

here. He sent away the next day for his son; and, in about
twenty days, he came back with the messenger, bringing six or
seven horses loaded with very rich furs, and which in the whole
amounted to a very great value.

His servants’ brought the horses into the town, but left the
young lord ata distance, till night, when he came ¢ncognito into
our apartment, and his father presented him to me; and, in short,
we concerted there the manner of our travelling, and everything
proper for the journey.

I had bought a considerable quantity of sables, black fox-skins,
fine ermines, and such other furs as are very rich—I say, I had
bought them in that city in exchange for some of the goods I
brought from China; in particular, for the cloves and nutmegs, of