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"Why, my castellan, of course." "What! that butcher boy! that expelled student?" But for all that he could no longer deny the contents of the letter. And now Count Hommonai spoke very sharply to Mr. Zurdoki.
However great was the astonishment of Dame Sarah at Milly's rapid proficiency in the culinary and other female sciences, it was as nothing compared with the astonishment of the Countess Hommonai at the swift apprehension of her pupil. You had only to read a passage over to her once, and she immediately knew it by heart, and what is more, never again forgot it.
So Valentine had at last enough money to carry out what he had so long been brooding over. His first step was to beg Captain Hommonai for a short furlough for himself and his comrade Simplex, which furlough he very easily obtained, inasmuch as my lord count was just then in the middle of his honeymoon, and therefore ill disposed to engage in martial feats for some time to come.
On the following day a still greater crowd of spectators appeared on the ropewalk, fifty drabants had also been sent by the corporation to keep order, and Count Hommonai had come on horseback to see the fight. At the appointed hour both horsemen appeared, accompanied by their friends.
"You've been praying for me, darling, have you not? Were you not in church, did you sit by my mother?" "Oh, no!" cried Dame Sarah, eager to tell everything. "That wicked old Fürmender woman would not let her come into the pew. She said to her: 'Servant maids must sit behind. And do you know who it was that found her a seat after all? Why the good Countess Hommonai!
At last Count Hommonai himself raised his beaker, and looking at Valentine, cried: "God preserve the man whom I love most of all my fellow-men, and with whom I am ready to share all my riches and all my honor!" Then Valentine raised his tankard and proposed this toast: "God preserve the friend who has shared with me all the contrarieties of life, my good comrade Simplex!"
Dame Sarah now gave her daughter-in-law another dress to wear, a trifle simpler than the former one, and hung a handsome mantle round her shoulders. The Countess Hommonai come forward to meet her guests to the very door of the room, and received Michal with great cordiality.
Wherein is shown how great a force the will of a woman is, and how quickly it can alter the order of things which man devises. Three days later, Count Hommonai brought back his forces, after successfully driving the Turkish freebooters into the neighboring county; it was for the neighboring county to drive them on still further.
Besides, said they, did not his father sacrifice himself for the benefit of the town when he was sheriff, and Valentine was much more fitted for the post than ever his father had been. That the commandant, Count Hommonai, was a great patron of his, and warmly recommended him everywhere, naturally did him no harm either.
It is because you fear I might be dangerous to your dear wife!" Hommonai was a finished gentleman. Even in his insults he was exquisite. "I have a book which I will send you at once," said he to Zurdoki; "if you look into it attentively, you will find that it is really quite impossible for me to be jealous of you." Zurdoki was very curious to see this odd book.
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