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"Who will probably not arrive in time for dinner," added Desiderius. Czipra joined the conversation from the extreme end of the corridor. "The old housekeeper from Sárvölgyi's was here to visit me. She asked for the loan of a pie-dish and ice: for Mr. Gyáli is expected to arrive to-day from Szolnok." "Bravo!" was Topándy's remark.
Just step outside a moment, Desi, that you may not see on which paper which of our names was written." Desiderius stepped outside. "He must not see that the tickets are already prepared," murmured Lorand: "You may come in now." "In this hat are both our names," said Gyáli, holding the hat before Desiderius: "draw one of them out: open it, read it, and then put both names into the fire.
Desiderius at first drew back, but later his calm confidence and courage immediately confirmed his resolution. "What do you say, if I have courage? You shall soon see. And you shall see, too, what a lawyer-like defence I am able to improvise. I wager that if I put the case before them, they will give the verdict in our favor."
The women rushed to meet them, Lorand was the first whom everyone embraced and kissed. "And your wife?" asked every lip. Lorand pointed speechlessly to the wain, and could not tell them. Desiderius answered in his place. "We have brought his wife here in her coffin." Seventeen years have passed since Lorand returned home again. What old people we have become since then!
"Go upstairs, Desi, to the governess and ask her whether she intends to come to the ball to-night, or if the lady of the house is going alone." Desiderius listlessly sauntered out of the room. He thought that to-day was scarcely a suitable day to conclude with a ball; still he did go upstairs to the governess.
Every impulse guided to the old state of things. Meantime the marriage of Desiderius would be a good influence. He was marrying Fanny. The young couple would, during their honeymoon, visit Lankadomb: true love was an education in itself: and then even cemeteries grow verdant in spring. The two young men reached Szolnok punctually at noon. And thence they returned home. Home, sweet home!
"They must grow accustomed to being their own masters, too." But the idea met with the most strenuous opposition from Desiderius' mother and Fanny. The mother's prayers were so beautiful, the bride so irresistible, that the other two, the grandmother and Lorand, finally allowed themselves to be persuaded, and agreed that the mother should stay with Desiderius.
Lorand, as soon as Czipra was gone, collected from the floor the torn, trampled paper fragments, carefully put them together on the table, until the note was complete, then read it over once again. Before the door of his room he heard steps, and gay talk intermingled with laughter. Topándy and Desiderius had come to see him.
Foremost among the exponents of this older Humanism, which dates from the middle of the fifteenth century, were Nicholas of Cusa and his disciples, Rudolph Agricola, Alexander Hegius, and Jacob Wimpheling. But the new Humanism and the new Renaissance movement generally throughout Northern Europe centred chiefly in two personalities, Johannes Reuchlin and Desiderius Erasmus.
Desiderius could relate so much that was pleasant of the gypsy girl: Lorand's letters during the past ten years of silence always spoke of the poor despised diamond, whose faithful attachment had been the sunny side of Lorand's life. They read the bundles of letters again and again: it was a study for the two mothers.
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