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Updated: June 1, 2025
Let us begin at once, what do you want for your fowls? 'I leave it to you, sir. 'Twenty-five kopeks, then. Slimakowa looked at her husband. This was double the amount they had usually taken. 'You can have them, sir, she cried. 'That scoundrel of a Jew charged us fifty, murmured the younger man.
He promised to go next day, but overslept himself, and Slimakowa barely succeeded in driving him off the day after. He gathered some information on the way from the peasants. Many of them had volunteered for work, but only a few had been taken on, and those had soon returned, tired out.
Slimakowa was just pouring out the peeled-barley soup when the stout administrator of the law entered. 'The Lord be praised, he said. 'What news? 'In Eternity. We are all right. The sergeant looked round. 'Is your husband at home? 'Where else should he be? Fetch your father, Jendrek. 'Beautiful barley; is it your own? 'Of course it is. 'You might give me a sackful.
'What makes you take trouble about that wretched child, Maciek? Slimakowa would say; 'if you talked to her about the Blessed Bible itself she would take no notice; she's dreadfully stupid, I never saw such a noodle in all my life. 'She doesn't talk, because she has sense, said Maciek; 'when she begins to talk she will be as wise as an old man.
Slimakowa stepped back for a moment, but when the firelight fell into the passage, she discerned a human face in the opening of the shawl, copper-coloured, with a broad nose and slanting eyes that were hardly visible under the swollen eyelids. 'The Lord be praised, said a hoarse voice. 'You, Zoska? asked the astonished gospodyni. 'It is I.
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