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We know who he is, for it is as plain as pie-crust that he is an agent for some Insurance Company, and has hanged himself here in our neighborhood in order to make people insure their harvest. It's as clear as day!" "You are mad, Galba," said Konopka crossly.
For if a suicide were carried through a place, that place was threatened with damage by hail! "Superstitious rubbish!" burst out Konopka. "Of course, of course, Mr. Konopka, but who is to help it if the people are so superstitious?" asked Senator Fajka, of the Kozsehuba faction. Konopka wildly banged the table with his fat, be-ringed hand, upon which every one was quiet.
Mravucsán upset a glass of wine with the sleeve of his coat, and while they were wiping it up, and strewing salt on the stain, Senator Konopka, turning to the lady of the house, exclaimed: "That means a christening, madam!" Of course Mrs. Mravucsán blushed, but Veronica asked in a most innocent tone: "How can you know that?"
"They are quite close to each other, and yet they shout as though they were trying to persuade some one not to put a fifteen-kreutzer stamp on a local letter. Oh dear! When will people be more sensible?" At that moment, Senator Konopka rose and drank to the health of the host, the "regenerator" of Bábaszék. He spoke in exactly the same thin, piping voice as Mr.
Kings do this too in another form, for at meetings and banquets they pay each other the compliment of dressing up in each other's uniforms; and yet no one thinks of laughing at them. Toast succeeded toast. "You have let the dogs loose now," whispered Fajka to Konopka. Mokry drank to the health of the lady of the house, and then Mravucsán stood up a second time to return thanks in his wife's name.
Senator Konopka declared that the correct thing to do was to bring the body to the mortuary chapel, and at the same time give notice of the fact to the magistrate, Mr. Mihály Géry, so that he could tell the district doctor to dissect the body. Galba shook his head. He was nothing if not a diplomat, as he showed in the present instance.
They would have liked a Jew with a long beard, and hooked nose, and red hair if possible; that was the correct thing! But Mr. Konopka, the cleverest senator in the town, who had made the contract with Mrs.
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