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Unfortunately the shortness of the time prevented them from adopting Buchmann’s advice. The gentry took a hasty farewell and at once started on their journey. But the Judge retained Thaddeus in the room and said to the Monk:— “It is time for me to tell you what I learned with certainty only yesterday, that our Thaddeus is sincerely in love with Zosia; let him ask her hand before his departure!
“There’s the rub,” shouted Sprinkler; “if I could only jump to the throne, and with my brush—splash—once moisten the Tsar, then he wouldn’t come back, either through the Kiev tract or the Minsk tract, or by any one of Buchmann’s contracts; the Russian priests would not revive him either by the power of God or by that of Beelzebub—the only brave way is to sprinkle.
Buchmann alone did not deign to share in the general joy; he praised the project, but would have preferred to change it slightly, and first of all to appoint a legal commission, which should—but the shortness of the time prevented them from adopting Buchmann’s advice, for in the yard of the castle the officers and ladies, the privates and the village girls were already standing in couples: “the polonaise!” they all shouted with one breath.
However, this plan did not meet with Pan Buchmann’s approval: Buchmann, prudent man that he was, had not meddled in the battle, but as soon as he heard that they were having a consultation, he hastened to put in his word; he thought the project good, but wanted to alter it, to develop it with more precision, to explain it more clearly, and, first of all, legally to appoint a commission, which should consider the aims of the emigration, the means and methods, and likewise various other matters.
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