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'Why, that's certainly worth while, said Grochowski, 'and not a bad wife! 'Aye, a good, hefty woman, cried Gryb. 'You'll be quite a gentleman, Slimak, added Grochowski. Slimak sighed. 'I'm sorry, he said, 'that Jagna did not live to see this. The agreement was carried out, and before Holy Week both Slimak and Gryb's son were married.
The squire had taken part of the furniture with him, the rest of the suites and fixtures were sold to the neighbouring gentry; the Jews bought up the library by the pound, the priest acquired the American organ, the garden-seats passed into Gryb's ownership, and for three roubles the peasant Orzchewski became possessed of the large engraving of Leda and the Swan, to which the purchaser and his family said their prayers.
I will sell you those two acres for sixty roubles and let you off all expenses, so you would gain a clear twenty roubles against Gryb's bargain, But I make one condition, you must decide at once and without consulting your wife; to-morrow my conditions wouldn't be the same. Slimak's eyes blazed; he fancied he saw quite clearly now that there was a conspiracy against him.
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