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Updated: May 25, 2025
'Take my case, said Maciek: 'the cart crushed me and they took me to the hospital, and here I am alive; but when my hour has struck I shall die, even if I were to hide under the altar. So it was with Stasiek. 'My little one, my comfort! sobbed the mother. 'Well, he wouldn't have been much comfort, said Slimak; 'he couldn't have done heavy farm work. 'Oh, no! put in Maciek.
Slimak and Maciek had stopped in their work to listen to the singing; the sudden cries surprised them, but it was the labourer who was seized with apprehension. 'Run, gospodarz, he said; 'something's up. 'Eh! something they have taken into their heads! 'Help! the cry rose again. 'Never mind, run, gospodarz, the man urged; 'I can't keep up with you, and something....
'But she is worth it! said the Soltys. 'Still, money sits in the chest and doesn't eat. 'Neither will it give milk. 'I should have to rent the field. 'That will be cheaper than buying fodder. A long silence ensued, then Slimak said: 'Well, neighbour, say your last word. 'I tell you, thirty-five paper roubles and a silver rouble. Gryb will be angry, but I'll do this for you.
When they had finished, the younger man answered them at some length, and at last they shook hands and the colonists took up their sacks of potatoes and departed cheerfully. 'How are you, gospodarz? called the elder man to Slimak. 'Shall we come to terms yet? 'What's the use of talking, father? said the other; 'he will come to us of his own accord!
The corn was getting ripe, and Slimak began to cut the rye the day after the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. He was in a hurry to get the work done in two or three days, lest the corn should drop out in the great heat, and also because he wanted to help with the harvesting at the manor. Usually he, Maciek, and Jendrek worked together, alternately cutting and binding the sheaves.
She went up to the boy and, taking his hand, said in a trembling voice: 'Never mind, Stasiek, don't roll your eyes like that, never mind! Come to your senses, I won't scold you. Magda, fetch some water. 'He has had more than enough water, murmured Slimak. The woman started back. 'What's the matter with him? Why is he so wet? 'I have taken him out of the pool by the river. 'That little pool?
You'd be a queer fish even among gentlefolk, but what will it be like for you among the peasants?" In the evening Slimak carried Stasiek on to the bed in the alcove; his mother laid two copper coins on his eyes and lit the candle in front of the Madonna.
'But the water was so shallow he might have scrambled out, only your singing...that was the second time it bewitched him so that something fell on him...isn't it true, Maciek? The labourer nodded. 'Did the boy have fits? asked the schoolmaster. 'Never. 'And has he never been ill? 'Never. Maciek shook his head. 'He's been ill since the winter. 'Eh? asked Slimak.
She seemed to understand the situation, for she turned her head towards him and touched his hand with her wet mouth. Slimak was so overcome with emotion that he very nearly kissed her, as if she were a human being. 'I must buy her, he muttered, forgetting even his tiredness. The gospodyni stood in the door with a pail of dishwater for the cattle.
Jendrek was looking for a stone, but his parents, taking notice of the man's deathly pallor and his sunken eyes for the first time, restrained him. 'Maybe they have poisoned him too, whispered Slimakowa. Slimak shrugged his shoulders, not knowing what to make of it. He began to question Maciek: Had anything happened in his absence?
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