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Updated: June 16, 2025
"I was just going to ask," said Madame Krisbay, "if she had been with the gentlemen?" "I thought she was with you," said the priest. "I have not seen her for two hours." "Nor I." "Nor we." "Perhaps she is in the kitchen?" Madame Krisbay looked vexed, got up from her seat, and went into the kitchen to call her pupil, but returned at once with the remark that she had not been seen there either.
Then he remembered he had heard that pinching was a good remedy, that it would, in fact, wake a dead woman; but in order to pinch a person, she must have some flesh, and Madame Krisbay had nothing but bones. So he waited with Christian patience till the others arrived on the scene, and then gave her up to their tender mercies. "Phew!" he breathed, "what a relief!" Intellectual Society in Bábaszék
Madame Krisbay certainly enjoyed the company of her two neighbors, and those gentlemen soon raised the whole country in her estimation. But it was lucky she understood no Slovak, and could not hear the conversation carried on by the intelligence of Bábaszék.
When they spoke, their remarks were addressed to Madame Krisbay, who began to notice that something had happened. But what? Only a few childish words to which their minds had given a more serious meaning than they were meant to have, and had increased in size as once the professor's narrow cell in Hatvan, which the devil enlarged to such an extent that the whole town had place in it.
We shall be there directly. You will see what a good bed I will give you to sleep in to-night; such pillows, the softest you can imagine!" It made no difference to her that Madame Krisbay did not understand a word of what she was saying. Many women talk for the sake of talking. Why should they not? They are probably afraid a spider might spin its web before their mouth.
"I will go and see after the carriage," he said, taking up his hat. But Mravucsán stood in his way. "Oh, no, you don't," he said. "Pro primo, even if Veronica can go, I am sure Madame Krisbay cannot start yet; it would be a sin to make her drive now; she must rest a bit first, after her fright and her bruises.
Well, it will be a nice muddle! Luckily the schoolmaster can speak German, and perhaps the young gentleman can too?" "Don't you worry about that, Mrs. Mravucsán, I'll amuse her at supper, and look after her wants," answered Gyuri. With great difficulty they got ready to go, Madame Krisbay moaning and groaning as they tried to dress her, after having sent Gyuri into the passage. Mrs.
By this time Veronica had seen and recognized her brother, had jumped out of the carriage and run to meet him, calling out: "Here we are, safe and sound. How anxious you must have been! And our carriage is broken to bits; and oh! if you had only seen the horses! All sorts of things have happened, and I have brought Madame Krisbay."
But she could not finish her sentence, for at that moment Madame Krisbay rose from the table, saying she was tired, and would like to retire to her room, and Mrs. Mravucsán led her and Veronica to two small rooms opening on to the courtyard. In the doorway Gyuri bowed to Veronica, who returned it with a slight nod. "Shall we start early in the morning?" he asked. She bowed with mock humility.
The hands of the parish clock pointed to the Roman figure II., and the chimes rang out on the air; the servants laid the table for dinner, Mrs. Adamecz brought in the soup, and his reverence led his guests into the dining-room, and placed them right and left of Madame Krisbay, when all at once they noticed that Veronica was missing.
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