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Updated: June 4, 2025
'Do you know, cried the gospodyni, coming up,'we have seen Jasiek Gryb who knows all about the law; we told him about Jendrek's giving it to Hermann, and he swore by a happy death that the Court would let Jendrek off; Jasiek has been tried for these tricks himself, he knows. 'Let them try and put me in prison! shouted Jendrek.
You know, she had learnt embroidery from the squire's wife, and Jasiek had been doing work in the bailiff's office and now goes about in an overcoat on high-days and holidays and...give me another thimbleful, or I shall feel faint and can't talk.... Meanwhile, as I told you, the colonists had paid down half the money to the Jew, and here they are, that's certain!
'Not quite, said Grochowski, 'but he did steal Slimak's. 'What? cried Gryb, and began to lay on to his son again. 'I did, father. Leave off! wailed Jasiek. 'My God, how did this come about? asked the old man. 'That's simple enough, sneered Grochowski, 'he found others as bad as himself, and they robbed the whole neighbourhood, till I winged him.
'I know I am stupid, that is because I can't read or write, but Jasiek Gryb can, and therefore he is clever, and he says there must be equality, and there will be when the peasants have taken the land from the nobility. 'Jasiek had better leave off taking money from his father's chest before he disposes of other people's property!
Jasiek, overcome by the warmth of the whisky, felt sleepy, stretched his legs out towards the fire, and felt an irresistible desire to lie down. He fought against it with energetic movements, but every now and then became utterly stiff and remembered nothing.
'What do you propose to do now? asked old Gryb between his blows. 'I'll mend my ways....'I'll marry Orzchewski's daughter, wailed Jasiek. 'Perhaps this is not quite the moment for that, said Grochowski, 'first you will go to prison. 'You don't mean to charge him? asked his father. 'I should prefer not to charge him, but the whole neighbourhood is indignant about the robberies.
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.
However, as he did not do me personally any harm, I am not bound to charge him. 'What will you take? 'Not a kopek less than a hundred and fifty roubles. 'In that case, let him go to prison. 'A hundred and fifty to me, and eighty to Slimak for the horses. Gryb took to his fists again. 'Who put you up to this? 'Leave off! cried Jasiek; 'it was Josel. 'And why did you do as he told you?
For a moment there shone in the gloom and amid the tossing trees the solitary light of their guide, for a moment one could hear amid wailing a tremulous hymn, 'He who casts himself on the care of the Lord.... Then the storm broke out again in what seemed like the groan of dying masses. 'Poor creatures! orphans! whispered Jasiek; a wild grief filled his heart.
She seized the lute, raised her head like a bird which begins to sing, and having closed her eyes, she began with a silvery voice: "If I only could get The wings like a birdie, I would fly quickly To my dearest Jasiek!"
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