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What a question?" answered Jagienka. "Well, you shall see him as the king sees Cwiek." "Has he left the city?" "He has left, but do you not hear the bells ringing?" "Is he dead?" exclaimed Jagienka. "Yes! say 'God rest his soul. ..." Both ladies knelt down and began to chant: "God rest his soul," in a bell-like voice.
"I, too, am afraid, but I think that a little mead is not the soul. I shall not give him my soul. One bladder full of wine or mead, I think, is of little significance in the eyes of the heavenly powers!" Then he lowered his voice and added: "One nobleman entertains another even if he is a useless fellow, and they say he is a nobleman." "Who?" asked Jagienka.
Jagienka being familiar with the Moczydlowski forests, very easily found the ford; but the water was deeper than usual, the little brook being swollen by the rains. Then Zbyszko without asking her permission, seized the girl in his arms. "I can cross by myself," said Jagienka. "Put your arms around my neck!" answered Zbyszko. He walked slowly through the water, while the girl nestled to him.
Having said this, she conducted him into the house, where they both sat in silence for a long time; the girl spoke first, and said: "Are you lonely now in Bogdaniec?" "Very lonely," answered Macko. "Then you knew that Zbyszko had gone away?" Jagienka sighed softly: "Yes, I knew it the very same day; I thought he would come here to bid me good-bye, but he did not." "How could he come!" said Macko.
Glowacz was so eager for the field, that when he left Jurand with Jagienka he embraced her feet and said: "I desire to kneel before you at once and beg you for a good word for my journey." "How is that?" asked Jagienka. "Do you want to go to-day?" "Early to-morrow, so that the horses may rest during the night, for the expedition to Zmudz is very far."
Jagienka understood it not, and she looked at Macko, who said: "He seems to indicate that his tongue has been torn out." "Did they tear out your tongue?" asked the girl. "A! a! a! a!" repeated the beggar several times, nodding his head. Then he pointed with his fingers to his eyes; then he moved his left hand across his maimed right, showing that it was cut off. Then both understood him.
He returned to Spychow with Macko's message, in obedience to his master, and therefore he felt a certain satisfaction that he would be protected by both masters, but when Jagienka herself told him what was the truth, that there was none to oppose him in Spychow and that his duty was to be with Zbyszko, he gladly assented. Macko was not his immediate authority.
One of them is young Wilk, the son of old Wilk of Bizozowa; the other is Cztan of Rogow. If they meet you here, they will gnash their teeth, as they do at each other." "Owa!" said Zbyszko. Then he turned to Jagienka and asked: "Which do you prefer?" "Neither of them." "Wilk is a great boy," said Zych. "Let him go in another direction!" "And Cztan?"
He settled five peasants on the land. He has also been at my house at Zgorzelice, because, as you know, he baptized Jagienka, of whom he is very fond and calls her little daughter." "God will bless him if he be willing to leave me the peasants," said Macko. "Owa! what will five peasants amount to! Then Jagienka will ask him and he will not refuse her."
The thought came to Zbyszko to have his shield-bearer, the Czech, as a witness of the wedding; but he gave up the idea when he remembered that he had received him from Jagienka. For a moment she stood in his memory as though present, so that it seemed to him that he saw her blushing face and her eyes full of tears, and heard her pleading voice say: "Do not do that!
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