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Updated: May 25, 2025
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.
Szliminszky's voice; she evidently objected to her husband drinking, and her neighbor, Mr. Mokry, the lawyer's clerk, objected to her constant distractions, in spite of the interesting theme they were discussing. "That strong cigar will harm you, Wladin; you had better put it down. Well, and why did you go to Besztercebánya, Mr. Mokry?"
"Klener has a tailor working for him, a certain Kupek, who used to work at one of the court tailors' in Vienna, and he said to me: 'Don't grudge the money, Mr. Mokry, for this is such a durable stuff that your own skin will wear out first. Please feel it." "It's as soft as silk. Wladin, my dear, I think you had better change places with me. You are in a draught there each time the door is opened.
"Yes, of course, but what did it cost?" asked the Polish lady, her thoughts still occupied with her husband. "I saw the piece of cloth myself; this was the first length cut off it. It has a peculiar look in the sunlight." "Yes, yes; but I asked the price of it." But it was difficult to bring Mokry to think of other things when he was once launched on the subject of his new suit.
Mokry in his new suit, made by the noted tailor of Besztercebánya, with his hat in one hand, and in the other the pistol he had fired as a farewell greeting. On the other side of the road was the dangerous windmill, its enormous sails throwing shadows over the flowering clover-fields. Luckily it was not moving now, and looked like an enormous fly pinned on the blue sky.
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