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A student preparing for exams is visited by a restless cousin fresh from a sea voyage with a cargo of tobacco; the cousin alternates between commercial schemes and grandiose poetic impulses. Over coffee and cigarettes he reads a hastily composed lyric, declares trade to be akin to poetry, and leads the narrator through cafés and streets of the city where they cross paths with a known literary figure. The narrative sketches the cousin’s mercurial temperament, physical frailty, and romanticized views of life, framing a tension between practical commerce and artistic longing within vivid urban episodes.