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The girl meanwhile had been eating coarse bread, sharing it with the dog. She now looked across to where the colonists were spreading themselves over the fields. 'We must go, father, she said. 'Yes, we must go; what do I owe you for the milk, gospodarz? The peasant shrugged his shoulders. 'If we were obliged to take money for a little thing like that, I shouldn't have asked you.
He felt no resentment towards Slimak for having beaten him and driven him away; the gospodarz was in the right, of course; neither was he afraid of having no roof over his head; people like him never had any roof of their own; he was not thinking of the future. Another thought was torturing him...the horses.
'Making themselves tired without need, he thought, 'when they might be sleeping to their hearts' content! Then he resumed his prayer. His attention was attracted by voices, and he saw two men in navy blue overcoats. When they caught sight of him, one asked at once: 'That is your hill, gospodarz, isn't it? Slimak looked at them in surprise. 'Why do you keep on asking me about my property?
'It's not mine; it belongs to the manor. 'And whose is the hill with the pine? 'Stop, Fritz... 'Oh well, if you are going to interrupt all the time, father.... 'Stop... is the hill yours, gospodarz? 'It's mine; no one else's. 'There you are, Fritz, the old man said in German; 'that's the very place for Wilhelm's windmill.
"The gospodarz had better come to my kitchen some evening, when the light's out, and see it for himself, and then he'll say, 'Ugh! They fly at your head, and into your face, and against your nose, eyes, and ears. They crawl about everywhere ugh!" She threw her apron over her head and gave a loud shriek. "Psia krew, what a noise!
'Take pity on us, gospodarz, said the stranger, 'our sledge has broken down close by, and I can't mend it, because they have stolen the hatchet out of my basket last night. Maciek looked doubtful. 'Have you come far? 'Twenty-five miles; my wife and I are driving twelve miles further. I will give you good vodka and sausages if you will help us.
When they came to the cottage, Slimakowa refused to speak to them and Magda began to cry. Slimak took them to the yard. 'Well, how is it, gospodarz, you want to sell a cow? 'How can I tell? 'Which one is it? Let's see her. Slimak said nothing, and Maciek had to take up the conversation. 'If one is to be sold, it may as well be Lysa. 'Lead her out, urged the butchers.
The gospodarz, his cap awry, and holding up nis sukmana as for a dance, lurched from right to left and from left to right, singing. The labourer laughed, not because they were drunk, but because it pleased him to see them enjoying themselves. 'Do you know, Maciek, cried Slimak from afar, 'do you know the Swabians can't hurt us! He ran up full tilt and supported himself on Maciek's neck.
"Drat you! it's you who have vexed the mistress." "No, no, Panje, not I. It was the rats, I swear it. If only the gospodarz would go down into the cellar he would see for himself how they run on the floor and jump up the walls. And in my kitchen he can see the cockroaches hundreds of thousands, hundred thousand millions of them!
This hill, together with two others, is the property of the gospodarz The gospodarstwo is like a hermitage; it is a long way from the village and still farther from the manor-house. The word, which means host, master of the house, will be used throughout the book. Gospodyni: hostess, mistress of the holding. Josef Slimak.
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