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They drank to the prosperity of the land, the town, and all the distinguished guests present, without exception. The new sheriff had to clink glasses and drink bumpers with so many people that his happiness was almost too much for him. Even the two Zwirinas made Latin verses in his honor, so that his triumph that day was complete.
But the dean there and then arose from his place at the green table, and gave the speaker such a buffet in the face that the blood flowed in streams from his mouth and nose. Things in this world do not always exactly turn out as men devise beforehand. The Zwirinas had won a complete triumph over the Kalondais.
Take this glove, and on the first day of carnival appear on the ropewalk behind the townhall, duly armed and mounted, to answer the challenge in your own person, if you would be regarded as a stout-hearted fellow and not as an errand-boy of your lady-mother." Then the trumpeter sounded three more flourishes, and Simplex nailed Valentine's glove to the Zwirinas' door.
This extraordinary case made a huge sensation throughout the town. Whole processions of acquaintances thronged the house of mourning, and in the courts of the Zwirinas there was wailing and woe. Now the courtyard of the Kalondais was only separated from that of the Zwirinas by a narrow partition wall.
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