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Updated: June 24, 2025
'Now I shall be easy for once, she said, 'I've often thought I'd like to throw her away into a ditch, but you may as well have her. Mind you look after her properly! If I come back and don't find her, I'll scratch out your eyes. 'You are crazy, said Slimak, 'cross yourself. 'I won't cross myself, I'll go away.... 'Don't be a fool, and sit down to supper, angrily cried the gospodyni.
Magda had found another situation by November; her place in the gospodarstwo soon grew cold, no one thought or talked of her, and only the gospodyni asked herself sometimes: 'Were there really a Stasiek in this room once and a Magda pottering about, and three cows in the shed? Meanwhile the thieving increased.
A rye loaf, butter, white cheese with caraway seeds, and a bowl of buttermilk were in readiness. 'Well, said the men, looking at each other in surprise, 'a nobleman could not have received us better. They ate heartily, praised everything, and finally asked Slimakowa what they owed her. 'May it be to the gentlemen's health! 'But we cannot fleece you like this, gospodyni.
Where will you go on a bitter night like this? Hamer's mastiffs were beginning to growl. Slimakowa hung on her husband's arm. 'Come home, come home, she urged stubbornly, 'I will not die in a strange house, I am a gospodyni, I will not stay here with the Swabians. The priests would not even sprinkle holy water on my coffin.
Then the cottage door creaked. 'Maciek, muttered the gospodarz. But Maciek did not appear. A hand was groping along the passage wall. 'What's the matter with him, has he gone blind? impatiently exclaimed the gospodyni, and opened the door. Something which was not Maciek was standing in the passage, a shapeless figure, not tall, but bulky. It was wrapped in a soaking wet shawl.
'Why, Maciek, that sounds as if you had a bad conscience, said the gospodyni disagreeably. 'It makes one feel bad, to see such wretchedness, he murmured. 'The man whose fault it is would feel it most! 'It isn't my fault, but I'm sorry for them all the same. 'Why don't you take the child, then, if you are so sorry? sneered Slimakowa, 'you'll give him the child, Zoska, won't you? Is it a boy?
Good God! if such a thing should ever befall the cottage where his wife and daughters, sons-in-law and grandchildren lived! His emotion grew when he heard the cows lowing miserably. He approached the stable. 'Slimak! My good lady gospodyni! he cried, tapping at the door. He was afraid to open it lest he should be suspected of prying into other people's business. 'Who is that? asked Slimak.
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.
The gospodyni now cleared the bowl off the table and returned with a bottle of vodka, two glasses, and a smoked sausage on a plate. 'To your health, neighbour, said Slimak, pouring out the vodka. 'Drink in God's name! They emptied the glasses and began to chew the dry sausage in silence. Maciek was so affected by the sight of the vodka that he folded his hands on his stomach.
For this the gospodyni milked the cows at daybreak, baked bread, and moved her saucepans on and off the fire. For this Maciek, perspiring, dragged his lame leg after the plough and harrow, and Slimak, murmuring his morning-prayers, went at dawn to the manor-barn or drove into the town to deliver the corn which he had sold to the Jews.
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