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Gerzson, but once more he did not enlighten the devil as to the particular individual he was desirous of drawing his attention to. "Well, I suppose we must go on as best we can with two horses now, for the first two are good for nothing."
Gerzson fell to, like a man, on the very first invitation; and each armed with a wooden spoon, attacked the maize pottage from different points till their assiduously tunnelling spoons met together in the centre of the large platter. "A capital dish, your reverence, really capital." "Very good for poor folks like we are, I admit. I know you don't have fare like this in Hungary."
Gerzson rang the gate-bell; he entered the drawing-room very boisterously like one resolved to wake up the whole house. A little coffer hung upon his stunted arm, in the other hand he carried a double-barrelled gun, and from a pouch, fastened by straps to his shoulder, peeped forth two four-barrelled pistols. "Why, plague take it!" laughed Hátszegi, "you are armed for a whole guerilla warfare."
Gerzson leaped from the box, and in his rage and fury dashed his pipe-stem into a thousand pieces. "What can the smith have been about!" whined the coachman shaking his head, "and yet his lordship had a look at them too!" "Devil take your smith, and his lordship also for the matter of that. The whole lot of you deserves hanging."
Speak the truth, sirrah! Is your master at home or is he not?" "I have just told you that there is not a soul at home except her ladyship, and she is mad." At that same moment Gerzson thought he heard a fiddle in the upper story. "What, music here!" he cried. The fellow laughed. "Yes, they are trying to cure the sick baroness by playing to her."
Squire Gerzson was elected the leader of this vast hunt, whose area extended over hundreds of square miles, by all the six counties concerned it was generally felt that this was but due to him for the neglect of his warnings and Mr. Gerzson proved on this occasion that if he was not a great strategist, at any rate he was a great beater up of game.
"And in the meantime, let us have something to strengthen the heart," said Hátszegi producing a flask of szilvapalinka and filling his own and his guest's glass. "If you have a chance of shooting Fatia Negra, you must give me one half of the thousand ducats set upon his head, because I have abandoned this fine opportunity to you." At this Mr. Gerzson coughed.
"What the devil...!" rang out Mr. Gerzson, but there he stopped, for it is not becoming to curse and swear when a lady is in the carriage behind you, even if she does not hear. Meanwhile the coachman mounted up beside him and they drove on again. "Well we cannot drive that horse much further," grumbled Mr. Gerzson, "the other three must pull the carriage.
The news spread like lightning through the six confederated counties and everyone seized his sword and musket. So old Gerzson Satrakovics whom everybody had laughed at, was right after all. It was universally agreed that a stop must be put to this sort of thing once for all. There was no waiting now for the meetings of Quarter Sessions.
The lacquey brought in breakfast. The gentlemen also sat down to it lest the lady should breakfast alone. "We shall have splendid weather, Baroness," observed Mr. Gerzson, dipping his cake into his black coffee. "The sky is full of stars, we could not wish for better travelling weather." "The sky is nice enough, but the ground is a little stumbly," put in Hátszegi.
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