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Updated: May 25, 2025
He was walking along moodily by the side of the sledge. No one was inside it but Michal. The sun had set. Its scarlet glare still lit up the summits of the distant Carpathians, but the only objects which they illuminated here below were one or two mansions scattered among the hills, the gates of the city, and a large, lonely building standing outside the walls.
Michal did as she was told, and Valentine then hastened with the solved enigma to the commandant, Count Hommonai. The letter contained very remarkable things. Count Hommonai had no sooner taken note of its contents than he sent for Zurdoki. "Sir!" he at once began, without so much as asking Zurdoki to take a seat, "you are here with no good intention."
And he sent a messenger to tell David that he was well pleased with him, and would like him to marry Michal; and that as he was too poor to give the king a present, he would not ask him for one. But if he would kill one hundred Philistines within a certain time, that would stand for a present.
"But those who believe in what the cards say," pursued Pirka, somewhat irrelevantly, "must pay for it, and those who do not believe must also pay, ay, and much more dearly too." "Let us see!" Michal crouched down beside Pirka on the mat, where the witch had spread the cards. "Oh, oh! Great things are in store for us," began Pirka, pointing to the cards.
But when the Countess Isabella heard that her husband had killed the old fool, she said: "What a pity he had but one life! He has only atoned for the blood of my poor Michal. Valentine Kalondai is still unavenged." They then called the maids, who cleansed the floor with hot water.
Be there in the afternoon when it strikes two! Then I'll tell you something." With that she quickly whipped the cloth round her head again, and whisked out of the room, shuffling and scraping all the way down the long corridor as beggar-women do. Michal remained behind, tormented by agonizing doubts. What did this woman, who had so much power over her, mean to do with her?
But so much he did tell him: that Catsrider, instead of taking his Michal to the parsonage which, as a curer of souls, he ought to have occupied, had remained in his father's house, where they had treated Michal very cruelly. But he added that, sooner or later, the robbers would destroy the house, and then Michal had a most terrible fate to expect. "What shall I do?
Michal answered not a word. "Thus all your negations are confuted, and now let us hear your affirmations. What is the name of the young man who has presumed to make you a declaration of love?" "Valentine Kalondai." The learned man no sooner heard this name than he smote violently with the palm of his hand on the volume of Macrobius lying open before him.
"Yes, but I've a little buck-goat, and when I send him away and say to him, 'Go, bring me the pretty youth hither whom my lady dotes upon; so true as I came out of that well, my little buck-goat will bring the young man hither though he were even on the Turkish borders." Michal began to grow frightened. "Hither he shall not bring him," cried she.
Dame Sarah treated him like her own son, and would not allow him to be branded, as was usually done in those days. Wherein occur such astounding transformations that people are scarcely able to recognize their very selves. Michal, however, is calumniated in a matter wherein she is absolutely innocent.
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