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"Are you not afraid to go to Szczytno?" asked Macko. "I am not afraid," replied Jagienka, "God is with me, because I am an orphan." "There is no faith there. The worst dog was Danveld whom Jurand killed together with Godfried.... The Bohemian told me so.
Sometimes after a battle, I slept with a dead Krzyzak instead of a pillow under my head." "You do not mean to tell me that you have ever killed a Krzyzak? I am sure you have not." Zbyszko, instead of answering, began to laugh. But Macko exclaimed: "For heaven's sake, girl, you do not know him yet! He has never done anything else, but kill the Germans.
But Macko said: "I have heard that the king rewarded those knights munificently who returned from the Lithuanian war. Speak, you belong here; is it true?" "Yes, it is true!" answered one of the nobles.
You, Macko, must regain your health. Jagienka will take care of you, because there is no woman in your house. One can see that you have a piece of iron between your ribs." Here he turned toward Zbyszko: "Show yourself also. Well, mighty God! I remember you when you were small and used to climb on the colts by the help of their tails; and now, what a knight!
I have planned what I must do; in the first place, I will rebuild the grodek." "Do you mean to do that?" asked Macko, "Well, and when the grodek is finished?" "When the grodek is rebuilt, then I will go to Warszawa to the prince's court, or to Ciechanow." "After my death?"
He thought that perhaps they would grant hem more. The old Pan of Tenczyn would never admit that a nobleman could not keep his word. Therefore when Macko came to the prison, the next day toward evening, Zbyszko, who could hardly sit quiet, sprang toward him and asked: "Granted?"
May be he even heard Zbyszko's voice, but he could not hail him.... Hey!... I cannot keep myself from weeping!... God wrought a miracle, and that is the reason why I think that He will do a great deal more, although this prayer proceeds from my sinful lips." "What else did Zbyszko say? Where did he go to?" asked Macko.
His big head was always filled with ideas and stratagems of war, which the Knights of the Cross could neither foresee nor prevent. He was therefore banished from the lands on the other side of the frontier. "We were talking of an expedition," said Zbyszko to Macko, with unusual animation, "and that is the reason why we came here so that we too might learn your opinion."
But when Macko vehemently shouted that the very Order prevented Lithuania from embracing Christianity, and when all proofs were adduced, Arnold was again amazed and became silent, because the truth was so obvious that it was impossible not to see it, or to dispute it.
The smoke blackened the weapons, and it was necessary to clean them very often. But Macko, who was careful, ordered the servants to put the costly clothes in the alcove in which his bed stood. In the front rooms there stood near the windows, pine tables and benches of the same, on which the lords used to sit during the meals, with all their servants.
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