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'Is that so? 'Of course it is so. The scoundrels threatened to drive us all away, and they have smashed themselves against a small gospodarz of ten acres. You deserve God's blessing and our friendship for that. God rest your dead wife eternally! Many a time has she set you against me! I'll bear her no grudge on that account, however.
I'll pay you next time I come. 'I'll get the bag at once, sir. 'Perhaps you can sell me a chicken as well? 'We can. 'Mind it's tender, and put it under the box. Slimak came in. 'Have you heard, gospodarz, who it was that tried to steal the horses? 'How should I know? 'They say in the village that it was Sukiennik and Rogacz. 'I don't know about that.
'Oh yes, the bearded one interrupted impatiently; 'everyone knows that he sits here in the manor-fields like a hole in a bridge. The devil take the whole business. 'Wait, Fritz! Do the manor-fields surround you on all sides, gospodarz? 'Of course. 'Well, that will do, said the younger man, drawing his father towards the carriage. 'God bless you, gospodarz, said the elder, touching his cap.
It was in this frame of mind that they sat down, but somehow the dinner was not a success. Slimakowa poured most of the sauerkraut over the table, the gospodarz had no appetite, and Jendrek had forgotten how to hold a spoon, scalded his father's foot with soup and finally fell asleep. His parents followed his example, so Maciek was left to himself again.
The Jew looked at Slimak and waited, then he tapped his forehead. 'Where is the pail, gospodarz? 'Leave me alone. But Jonah did not give in. He found the pail, ran to the ice-hole and watered the cows; he had sympathy for cows, because he dreamt of possessing one himself one day, or at least a goat. Then he put the pail close to Slimak. He was exhausted with this unusually hard work.
The cow finally planted herself firmly on the ground with her four feet rigidly fixed, and looked at Slimak with rolling eyes as if to say: 'Look, gospodarz, what they are doing to me...for six years I have been with you and have honestly done my duty, stand by me now.
Just look, how he is running along with the line, as if he had never done anything else in his life. He has never seen a book except in the Jew's shop window, and yet he can run better than any of them. I wish I had told him to put on his boots; they will never take him for the son of a gospodarz. She watched Jendrek with great pride until the party disappeared behind the line of the hill.
Then the cottage door creaked. 'Maciek, muttered the gospodarz. But Maciek did not appear. A hand was groping along the passage wall. 'What's the matter with him, has he gone blind? impatiently exclaimed the gospodyni, and opened the door. Something which was not Maciek was standing in the passage, a shapeless figure, not tall, but bulky. It was wrapped in a soaking wet shawl.
'And your gospodarze, concluded Hamer, 'are brutes. They will do nothing for you. Before sunset a sledge conveyed the unconscious woman to the settlement. Slimak remained, recovered his money from under the manure, collected a few possessions and milked the cows. The dumb animals looked reproachfully at him and seemed to ask: 'Are you sure you have done the best you could, gospodarz?
Gospodarz must know best himself." "Confound you! Call her. She is to come." The maid disappeared. Then she withdrew as quickly as possible. The glass which Mr. Tiralla hurled after her only hit the door, and then broke into a thousand pieces. The schoolmaster could not stand it any longer. What was the good of staying there? Of course, she wouldn't show herself any more. Such bad luck!
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