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There in the slacked lime the skin will leave our bodies: I shall put on yours, you mine: how pretty we two shall be!" The robber laughed. Lorand gathered all his strength to resist the mad attempt. Kandur suddenly caught Lorand's right arm with both of his, clung to him like a leech, and with a devilish smile said, "Come now, come along!" and drew Lorand nearer, nearer to the edge of the pit.
The young man could make no mistake as to whom she meant: Hermine encircled his young neck with her beautiful arms and overwhelmed his face with kisses. Lorand was no longer his own. In one hour he lost his home, his fortune, and his heart. It was already late in the evening when Bálnokházy's butler brought me a letter, and then hurriedly departed, before I could read it. It was Lorand's writing.
"And now listen to me: between the two wings of this little insect there is a tiny parasite or worm, which in its turn has two eyes, a life, and life-blood flowing in its veins, and in this worm's stomach other worms are living, impenetrable to the eye of this microscope." "I understand," said the atheist, glancing into Lorand's eyes.
Go back, Fanny, and say that I can tell them the truth, only on the condition that mother and grandmother promise not to seek him out, until I show them a letter from Lorand, in which he invites them to come to him: nor to send others in search of him: and, if they wish to send a letter to him, they must first give it to me, that I may send it off to him, and they never show, even by a look, to anyone that they know aught of Lorand's whereabouts."
Then, as if she had gained her master's consent, she turned again to Lorand: "So call me simply 'Czipra." "All right, Czipra, my sister," said Lorand, holding out his hand. "Well now, that is nice of you to add that;" upon which she pressed Lorand's hand, and left the men to themselves. Topándy turned the conversation, and spoke no more to Lorand of Czipra.
The anecdotes at times reached the utmost pitch of obscenity and at such times I was displeased to hear Lorand laugh over such jokes as expressed contempt for womankind. I was only calmed by the thought that "our own" were long in bed it was after midnight and so it were impossible for mother or someone else out of curiosity to be listening at the keyhole, waiting for Lorand's voice.
If necessary, I shall pitch into them, and while they are running me in, you can go on. To you, Master Lorand, I give my stick for the journey. It's a good, honest stick. I have tramped all over Germany with it. Well, God bless you." The old fellow squeezed Lorand's hand. "I have a mind to say something. But I shall say nothing. It is well just as it is, I shall say nothing. God bless you, sir."
I shivered at the bold statement. I imagined that for these words the whole company would be arrested and thrown into prison. Bálnokházy, with smiling tenderness, bent down to his wife's hand and, kissing it, said: "As a man, truly, just as good a man; but as a baker, a better baker than I." Now it was Lorand's turn to crimson. He riveted his eyes upon my aunt's face.
Topándy was writing a letter on Lorand's writing-table: and when asked "to whom?" he said "To the priest." Yet he was not wont to correspond with such. Czipra thought this too was all on her account. Why, she had not yet been christened. What a mysterious house it was, the door of which was now to open before her!
And once again he grasped Lorand's hand tenderly, as one who was incapable of expressing in words all the good wishes with which his heart was brimming over. "You see I should have been a good general after all," said Lorand smiling. "How beautifully I captured the besieging army." "Oh, not at all; the blockade is still being kept up."
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