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Gregorics let them in, and they saw the caldron in the middle of the room. The top was covered with sawdust, so that they could not see what was in it, but it was so heavy the two masons could hardly carry it. Gregorics followed them step for step, and did not move until they had built up the wall again. "If you have it whitewashed to-morrow, sir, no one will find the place."
There is always a good deal of bother attached to a purchase of that kind," said Sztolarik coldly; "the present owner is a minor, and the Court of Chancery must give permission for the sale to take place. I would rather leave things as they are. When the boy is of age he may do what he likes, but if I sell it now he may be sorry for it later on. No, no, Mr. Gregorics, I can't agree to it.
At this she turned scarlet, and jumped up from her chair, pushing him away from her. "That's not in my contract, sir!" she exclaimed. Gregorics blushed too. "Don't be silly, Anna," he said. But Anna tossed her head and walked to the door. "Don't run away, you stupid, I shan't eat you."
The man who took it up got a florin for doing so. At the sight of this novel visiting-card Prepelicza threw down his hammer and trowel, and with the next pulley returned to his mother earth, where miracles have been going on ever since the time of Moses. "What can I do for you, sir?" "Follow me." "To the end of the world, sir." "We need not go as far as that," said Gregorics, smiling.
Of course, you understand me, sir?" Kupeczky himself often said: "Yes, that will be the end of it. Who will bet with me?" It would have been the end, and the correct way too, for Gregorics was fond enough of the boy to do a correct thing for once in a way. But two things happened to prevent the carrying out of this plan.
Though he had studied law, he did nothing particular at first, only drove to his estate a mile or two out of the town and spent a few hours shooting; or he went for a few days to Vienna, where he had a house inherited from his mother; and the rest of his time he spent in Besztercebánya. "Pál Gregorics," they said, "is a lazy fellow; he does nothing useful from one year's end to the other.
By degrees all the members of the family died in poverty, and were forgotten; only Pál Gregorics lived in the memories of the six lawyers, who remarked from time to time: "He was a clever man!"
But it was even livelier for the Gregorics family, for they thus got back the 20,000 florins they had been cheated out of that is, with the exception of the 2000 florins left to the Academy of Arts and Sciences, for, of course, the Academy accepted the legacy, though it also had had nothing to do with Gregorics.
The engineer had been to look at the place, and had declared there was nothing of any value to be found there, not even a bit of gold, unless it were the stoppings of some dead woman's teeth. "But supposing there is coal there?" "Not a sign of it." "Then what on earth are the Gregorics thinking of?"
He decided to send István Drotler, the civil engineer, to have a look at the place, and see if it contained gold or coal. But before he had time to start for the engineer's, Gáspár Gregorics appeared on the scene, to ask if there were any letter from Pest. Sztolarik was in difficulties. "The letter is here, yes, the letter is here; but something else has happened.
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