human
Ah, my dear, dear friend! and you would pass me! Whither the hangman so fast are you running in the mud!
gpt
My dear Salomon! But let me go, I beseech you; I am in search--
human
In search? cries the jolly Jew banker,--
gpt
My dearest fellow, I am looking for two ladies!
human
Two? ah, rogue! shall not one suffice?
gpt
Don't, my dearest fellow! I am looking for two English ladies.
human
Potz! You shall find two hundred in the hotels, ugly and fair; but the two fairest are gone this two hours.
gpt
When?--which?
human
Sabina Mellot, and a Sultana--I thought her of The Nation, and would have offered my hand on the spot: but Madame Mellot says she is a Gentile.
gpt
Gone? And you have seen them! Where?
human
To Bertrich. They had luncheon with my mother, and then started by private post.
gpt
I must follow.
human
What matter?
gpt
But you shall find them to-morrow, just as well as to-day. They stay at Bertrich for a fortnight more. They have been there now a month, and only left it last week for a pleasure tour, across to the Ahrthal, and so back by Andernach.
human
Why did they leave Coblentz, then, in such hot haste?
gpt
Ah, the ladies never give reasons. There were letters waiting for them at our house; and no sooner read, but they leaped up, and would forth. Come home now, and go by the steamer to-morrow morning.
human
Impossible! most hospitable of Israelites.
gpt
To go to-night,--for see the clouds!--Not a postilion will dare to leave Coblentz, under that quick-coming _allgemein und ungeheuer henker-hund-und-teufel's-gewitter_.
human
They will be caught in it.
gpt
No. They are far beyond its path by now; while you shall endure the whole visitation; and if you try to proceed, pass the night in a flea-pestered post-house, or in a ditch of water.