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Then he remembered the friar who walked through the Vistula, and Queen Jadwiga who had brought salt from Hungary.
From the flowers strewn under one's feet, one can always chose the most beautiful, or not choose at all, but always tread upon them. Leon. If one does not stumble. Jadwiga. No! To advance toward immortality. Leon. Longing for death while on the road. Jadwiga. It is an excess of pessimism for a man who says that he is accustomed to his wheelbarrow. Leon.
I cannot overcome my emotion nor can I tranquillize the throbbing of my heart. Three times have I touched the bell and three times have I wished to retreat. I am troubled. Why does she wish to see me! "Be so kind as to come to see me on a very important matter. In spite of all that has happened I hope you will not refuse to grant the request of a woman. Jadwiga Karlowiecka."
Jadwiga. What duties? Give them to me. For every-day life one great, ideal love is not enough for me. I am a woman! If I could only respect him! Leon. But, madam, you should remember to whom you are speaking of such matters. I have no right to know of your family affairs. Jadwiga. No. You have not the right, nor are you obliged nor willing.
Little Jadwiga, the rich mill-owner's daughter, who was wearing a brand-new pale blue cashmere frock, cut square in front, which left her neck bare as far as the freckles went, did not meet with as much success as could be expected from her dress, which the Gradewitz dressmaker had declared to be her masterpiece. Tiralla. It was a bitter blow.
Leon. I am calm, madam, and I listen to you. Jadwiga. I wished also that we should greet each other like people who have forgotten about the past, who know that it will not return, and to be at once on the footing of good friends; I do not dare say like brother and sisters. Therefore, Sir, here is my hand, and now be seated and tell me if you accept my proposition. Leon. I leave that to you.
There are wrongs which a man cannot bear with dignity so those words were the last I heard from you. Jadwiga. Truly. When I listen to you I must keep a strong hand on my senses. As soon as the other appeared you gave vent to a jealous outburst. I said that I gave more than I took, and you thought I spoke of money and not sentiment?
Good gracious! when I think to-day of that confidence and faith in life those girlish illusions the illusions of a young person who wished to be happy and make others happy, that enthusiasm for everything good and noble! where has all that gone where has it disappeared? And to think that I was well, an honest wild-flower and to-day Leon. And to-day a society woman. Jadwiga.
I recommend him to you as a model for Adonis. Ha! ha! You do not recognize the wild-flower of Kalinowice? Leon. No, I do not recognize it. Jadwiga. No! But the life flower. Leon. As a joke Jadwiga. At which one cannot laugh always. If our century was not sceptical I should think myself wild, romantic, trying to drown despair.
According to the second clause in our agreement "sincerity" I must add that I am already accustomed to my wheelbarrow. Jadwiga. We must not speak about it. Leon. I warn you it will be difficult. Jadwiga. It should be more easy for you. You, the elect of art and the pride of the whole nation, and in the mean while its spoiled child you can live with your whole soul in the present and in the future.
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