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At that sound Lorand began to realize the danger that threatened the whole household. "Come and take your gun!" said the old man standing in the doorway. His face was just as contemptuous as ever. There was not the least trace of excitement, fright or anger upon it. Lorand rose from his kneeling posture beside the bed. "Don't waste time putting your boots on!" bawled the old fellow.
So Lorand did not get angry, did not show any sullenness or melancholy, but, as he was wont to do in student days of yore, slapped the dandy's open hand and grasped it in manly fashion. "So glad to see you, Pepi. Why the devil should I not have recognised you? Only I imagined that you would have aged as much as I have since that time, and now you stand before me the same as ever.
Well, don't knit your eyebrows so; I am not saying a word about his wife. I have no business with women. Bálnokházy will not prosecute you, he will merely tell the world what has happened to him." Lorand, with a bitter smile of scorn, asked me: "What will he relate to the world?" "That his wife broke open his safe, stole his jewels, and his ready money, and eloped with a young man."
If he should meet the defeated robbers? If he should be upset on one of the rickety bridges?" Pictures of horror followed each other in quick succession in her feverish brain. She trembled for Lorand. Then it occurred to her that he could defend himself against terrors. Why, he knew how to pray. She clasped her hands across her breast and closed her eyes.
In twenty minutes this swelling will reach my shoulder, and the way from thence to the heart is short." The doctor, who hastened to appear, confirmed Topándy's opinion. "There is nothing to be done," he said. Lorand, horror-stricken, hastened to take care of his uncle: the old fellow embraced the neck of the youth kneeling beside him. "You philosopher, you were right after all, you see.
How long can those, of whom you are thinking, live? Let us say ten years. He, whose name is drawn must shoot himself to-day ten years." "Oh," cried Lorand in a tone of vexation, "this is merely a cowardly subterfuge by which you wish to escape." "Brave lion, you will fall just as soon, if you die, as the mouse.
Why, that implied an obligation upon him too. And this obligation was also strong. Two opposing obligations neutralize each other. It was his duty rather to fulfil that which he owed to a parent, than that which he owed to his murderer. These are all fine sophisms. Lorand sought in them the means of escape. And then in those beautiful eyes. Could he, on whom those two stars smiled, die?
Madame Bálnokházy had time to remark that Czipra's eyes, when they looked upon Lorand, seemed like the eyes of faithfulness: and she had a delicious opportunity of cutting to the heart two, if not three people. "Well, it seems to me what is not may be, may it not, 'Lorand?" "Lorand!" cried three voices in one. "There we are! Well I have betrayed you now.
Lorand will never come back again, Gyáli has deceived us; but only tit for tat, for we deceived him with that tale of the regained property in which only one man believes, honorable Sárvölgyi. If you accept his offer, you will be a lady of position, if not, you can come with me as a wandering actress. We can take our revenge upon them, for they hate Sárvölgyi too.
It will be ten years to-morrow since you told me I might in ten years tell mother where you are. Then you wrote to me to be at Szolnok to-day. I have kept my promise to mother as regards telling her to-morrow and to you by my appearance here. Szolnok is two days distant from our home: so I had to bring them here in order to do justice to both my promises." Lorand became unrestrainedly angry.
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