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. Te told Ine,
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 T 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;
and that seeing I could
not prevail on him, I ,,
would show my re-
spect to him by my

 

concern for his son.
But these things are “TL SENT MY SERVANT TO HIS LORDSHIP? WITR A
too tedious £6 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 at a distance, till night, when he came incognito 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, piack 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