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I'll sell myself, borrow, pay back the money, rather than marry that harridan. 'Just take a drop to my health, Antek: I have something to say to you. 'You won't get round me. I have said no, and that is no. Why, if I must, I will run away to Brazil or the end of the world with those folk yonder! 'Silly! just take a drop to my health, Antek: I have something to say to you.
The wind threw itself upon Antek, whose huge form towered above all the others, and ruffled his hair; but he did not notice the wind, he was entirely taken up with the horses and with steadying the coffin, which was tilting dangerously at every hole in the road. The two sisters were walking close behind the coffin, murmuring prayers and eyeing each other with furious glances. 'Tsutsu!
When it was broad day, Antek fetched the village deaf-mute, who washed and dressed the old man, laid him out, and put a consecrated candle at his head. Antek then went to give notice to the priest and to the Soltys of his father-in-law's death and his own inability to pay for the funeral. 'Let Tomek bury him; he has got all the money.
The wind drove clouds of snow across from the endless, steppe-like plains, dotted here and there with skeleton trees, and lashed the little crowd of human beings as with a whip. ... and loves and keeps with faithful heart His word..., they insisted through the whistling of the tempest and the frequent shouts of Antek, who was getting breathless with cold: 'Woa! woa, my lads!
They drank four quarts of spirits mixed with fat, ate three pounds of sausages, and talked about the money transaction. The heat of the room and the spirits soon made Antek very drunk. He stumbled so on the way home that his wife took him firmly under the arm.
If Julina is to have everything let her look after him that's nothing to do with me. 'Isn't my father... and cheated us... he has. I don't care.... The old speculator! Antek swallowed the smoke of his cigarette and spat into the middle of the room. 'If he hadn't cheated us we should now have... wait a minute... we've got five... and seven and a half... makes... five and... seven...
Smoletz remained at the inn to drink an extra glass in prospect of the loan, but Ignatz ran home ahead as fast as he could, for he was horribly cold. 'Look here, mother..., said Antek, 'the five acres are mine! aha! mine, do you hear?
He reared up feebly, till at last he broke down on the threshold, with foam on his lips, and a look of horror at being left to die of cold, in his broken eyes; his face was distorted by an expression of anguish which was like a frozen cry. There he lay. The next morning before dawn Antek and his wife got up. His first thought was to see what had happened to the old man.
They were all silent and strangely ill at ease. The old man was not mentioned; it was as if he had never been. Antek thought of his five acres; he looked upon them as a certainty. Momentarily the old man came into his mind, and then again the sow he had meant to kill when she had finished with the sucking-pigs.
And now he won't give up. Oh dear me... poor me! She began to cry. 'That's true! He will have to rot, and you will have to live, they all answered in unison and nodded their heads. 'One's own father, she began again. ... Have we, Antek and I, not taken care of him, worked for him, sweated for him, just as much as they?
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