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Updated: May 20, 2025
Schmielke resolved at all events to secure her for the cotillon in good time, as that meant he would take her into supper as well. They all had the same intention, and all had made up their minds to call on the Tirallas at the earliest opportunity.
"I came past the farm the other day on my way from the Przykop, and found the servant lounging at the gate Marianna Śroka, from Althof, you know, a buxom lass, but awfully cheeky. 'Panje, said she in a low voice, and crept close up to me, 'Panje, there's murder in that house. She pointed to the Tirallas' house and made such eyes, she looked quite mad. She wouldn't let me go.
The old farm, which had been in the hands of the Tirallas for over a hundred years, had rather an imposing look in the distance. Not much was to be seen of the farmhouse itself it was very low, as though sunk in the ground but the barns and stables, all roofed with new, red tiles, formed a wall round the square courtyard in front of it, and the whole together constituted a very fine property.
"Do you think that the Tirallas would come to our Gardewitz ball?" asked the clerk from the post office, blushing like a young girl. "I'm getting it up, and if the Tirallas were coming I would arrange a cotillon with flowers. If we were to order them at a big shop in Posen we could get real ferns and wired flowers at sixpence a bouquet. Why, it would even be worth while writing to Berlin for them.
She would laugh, laugh! Ha, and to-night she would dance, dance! She felt as though she must deaden all feeling. The Tirallas were anxiously awaited. The ball had no attraction as long as Mrs. Tiralla was not there. As their carriage rumbled up to the market-place little Ziëntek, in evening dress and a tall hat on his fair hair, rushed to the hotel door to receive them.
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