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Updated: June 9, 2025
The people however enjoyed themselves at the firesides in their smoky shanties, presaging from the intensely cold winter an abundant year, and they waited gladly for the approaching holidays. The princely Forest Court was deserted. The princess with the court and priest Wyszoniek left for Ciechanow.
"Merciful Jesus, save her and help!" ... and she left the room screaming. Jurand jumped out of bed and began hurriedly to clothe his gigantic frame. Zbyszko sat as if petrified, but in a few moments his tightly set teeth began to gnash with rage. "How do you know that the Teutons captured her?" asked Father Wyszoniek. "By the Passion of our Lord, I'll swear!" "Wait! ... It may be so.
In the room there were heard only the solemn voice of Father Wyszoniek: "Domine, non sum dignus," and with it the crackling of the logs in the fireplace and the sound of crickets playing obstinately, but sadly, in the chinks of the chimney. Outdoors the wind arose and rustled in the snowy forest, but soon stopped.
And in a moment in the side door Danusia appeared; her eyes were red on account of sleepless nights; and she held a pot of steaming gruel, which the ksiondz Wyszoniek had ordered to be put on Zbyszko's fractured bones. "Come to me, my dear girl!" said Prince Janusz. "Put aside the pot and come."
Then he began to speak in a feeble and broken voice: "Gracious lady Jurand was against me in Krakow he will be here also, but if the ksiondz Wyszoniek married me to Danusia, then afterward she may go to Spychow because there is no human power that could take her away from me "
"They will deny it," repeated the priest Wyszoniek. "If they once inform Jurand that the girl is with them, then they will not be able to deny it," somewhat impatiently replied Mikolaj of Dlugolas.
Then he became thoughtful and after a while he began to say to the courtiers: "I cannot understand why they killed their guest; I would suspect the shield-bearer if I did not know that he went there without weapons." "Bah!" said the ksiondz Wyszoniek, "why should the boy kill him? He had not seen him before. Then suppose be had had arms, how could he attack five of them and their armed retinues?"
Zbyszko and Danusia remained sometime in silence; the ksiondz Wyszoniek took the chalice and carried it to the chapel of the mansion.
On the other side of the table stood Father Wyszoniek who was to pronounce a benediction upon the fragrant supper. At this moment, a man covered with snow entered and cried: "Most Gracious Prince!" "What is it?" said the prince. "Is there no reverence; they have interrupted him in his religious ceremonies."
"To be sure they are great boys," affirmed the ksiondz Wyszoniek. "Even now when he can hardly breathe, be has taken Jurand's part and challenged those knights. Jurand needs exactly such a son-in-law." "In Krakow, Jurand said differently; but now, I think he will not oppose it," said the prince.
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