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Updated: June 14, 2025
A shout, like the roar of thunder, answered: "To the castellan! To the castellan!" The priest raised his eyes, the clerk looked confused, the captain and his soldiers dropped their arms; everybody understood what had happened. There was an old Polish and Slavonic custom, as strong as the law, known in Podhale, around Krakow, and even further.
You know what Danusia did for me in Krakow, but you do not know that they proposed to me Jagienka of Bogdaniec, the daughter of Zych of Zgorzelice. My uncle, Macko, was in favor of it, also her parents and Zych; a relative, an abbot, a wealthy man as well.... What is the use of many words? an honest girl and a beautiful woman and the dowry respectable also. But it could not be.
You remember him in Krakow...." And Jurand gazed with his sound eye at the youth for a moment and said: "I remember ... but where is Danusia?" "She did not ride with you?" anxiously inquired the princess. "How could she ride with me, when I did not go to her?" Zbyszko and the princess looked at each other, believing him to be still speaking under the influence of the fever.
But when the midday hour arrived she slipped into her jacket, past the importunities of Hattie Krakow, and out into the sun-lashed noonday swarm of Sixth Avenue. Down one block two, three; then a sudden pause before a narrow store-front liberally placarded with invitatory signs to the public, and with a red cross blazoning above the doorway.
Miss Krakow folded her well-worn hand bag under one arm and fastened her black cotton gloves. "Pf-f-f! What's the use of wasting breath!"
"Had I not seen the cross, I would have thought he was one of our knights, and I would not have attacked one of ours." "And how was it possible to find any Krzyzak near Krakow, except an envoy, or some one from his retinue?" To this Zbyszko did not reply, because there was nothing to be said.
The abbot, when he comes, will tell me whom I must ask. Every clericus does not know all celestial secrets and everyone of them is not familiar with such things, but the abbot is." "Suppose you make a vow to the Lord Jesus himself?" "Of course he is over all of them. But suppose your father had injured my servant, and I went to Krakow to complain to the king; what would the king tell me?
Near by him at the table, was sitting a youth with long hair and joyful look, evidently his comrade, or perhaps a shield-bearer, because he also was dressed as for a journey in a similar leather jacket. The rest of the company was composed of two noblemen from the vicinity of Krakow and of three townsmen with red folding caps, the thin tops of which were hanging down their sides to their elbows.
In that case the kingdom of Poland would be involved in a war. Therefore many knights, who like Zawisza, Farurej, Dobko and even Powala, were accustomed to seek adventures and fights in foreign countries, remained in Krakow not knowing what might soon happen. In case Tamerlan, who was the ruler of twenty-seven states, moved the whole Mongolian world, then the peril to the kingdom would be great.
One could see poor peasants offering some grain, lambs, chickens, ropes of dried mushrooms or baskets of nuts. There came rich offerings from the knights, from the merchants and from the artisans. They sent messengers to the places where miracles were performed. Astrologers consulted the stars. In Krakow itself, they ordered numerous processions. All guilds and fraternities took part in them.
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