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And here, you see, all of us in the village are sending you some victuals. Their conversation was interrupted by the arrival of Grochowski. 'I wouldn't believe Jonah, when he came to tell me all this, he said, 'and you here, Gryb, too? Where is the defunct? They approached to the stable and knelt down in the snow. Only the murmuring of their prayers and Slimak's sobs were audible for a while.
He talked in a tearful voice like Grochowski: 'Don't make a hell of your house, brother... and in order to make it more real he tried to make himself cry. At first he did not succeed, but when he remembered his foot, and that he was the most miserable creature, and the gospodyni hadn't even given him a glass of vodka, the tears ran freely from his eyes, until he too went to sleep.
When she reached the yard she saw Grochowski kneeling and rubbing his eyes with his sukmana and Slimak lying on the manure heap. Maciek was standing over them. 'We must do something with them, he said to the gospodyni; 'they've drunk a whole bottle of vodka. 'Get up, you drunkard, she cried, 'or I'll pour water over your head.
'Well, gospodarz, what is to happen now? His pity touched Slimak, but failed to rouse him. He raised his head. 'If you should see Grochowski, tell him not to sell the land before Jendrek is of age. 'But what am I to do now, when I get to the village? Slimak had relapsed into silence.
'They may find that there is a limit to it, said Grochowski. The policeman now proceeded to examine the corpses, and the Wojt was standing by with a wry face, as if he had bitten on a peppercorn. 'We must drive them to the district police-court, he said; 'Stojka, turning to the owner of the sledge, 'drive on, we will overtake you presently.
He had been meditating on this while harrowing over a fresh bit for half an hour, when he heard his wife calling from the hill: 'Josef, Josef! 'What's up? 'Do you know what has happened? 'How should I know? 'Is it a new tax? anxiously crossed his mind. 'Magda's uncle has come, you know, that Grochowski.... 'If he wants to take the girl back let him.
He walked by the side of the sledge and Grochowski and a man who was to make closer acquaintance with the police-court, for spoiling his neighbour's bucket, went with him. It so happened that, just as the Wojt was dispatching the bodies to the police-court, the police officer was sending 'Silly Zoska' back to her native village.
Maciek was also given to understand why Jasiek Gryb had entertained the gospodarz and his family so liberally, and Grochowski even seemed to know the man who had presented Maciek with the monks' cordial and said that the woman in the sledge was not a woman at all. 'I will do whatever you tell me, Soltys, said Maciek, embracing his knees, 'even if you should send me to my death.
'It does, it does, daddy, I've watched it myself, he whispered, going to sleep. The room was too hot for Slimak; he dragged himself up and staggered to the barn, where he fell into a bundle of straw. 'But what I gave for the cow I gave for her, he muttered in the direction of the sleeping Grochowski. Slimakowa came to the barn early the next morning and called her husband.
It's true, then, what Grochowski said about the land-distribution. Sixty roubles for a field worth seventy, indeed! All the same he could not quite get rid of the thought that it might have been a straightforward offer. He felt hot all over and wanted to shout or run after the squire. At that moment the young man hastily turned back.
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