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Updated: June 12, 2025
Let me see. Did you say that she commanded you to come ahead of us with the news, and then take her to Zgorzelice?" "She did. I repeated to you her words exactly." "Now, you may move ahead of us. Old Jurand must also be informed that his daughter has been found, but it must be done carefully so that the sudden joy may not kill him.
Also be careful whilst you are in the wild forests, for there are just now all kinds of gods whom the people of that land who have not been converted to Christianity worship. I remember what Macko and Zbyszko said about them in Zgorzelice." "I too remember what they said about those gods, but I am not afraid of them; they are puny things and no gods, and they have no power whatever.
"Other girls are afraid to even look at a crossbow; but with you, one can go to the forest all his life." Jagienka smiled at such praise, but she did not answer; they returned the same way they came. Zbyszko asked her about the beavers and she told him how many of them there were in Moczydoly, and how many in Zgorzelice.
Do you know that when they conducted him to the scaffold in Krakow, all the girls standing at the windows were crying, and such girls; daughters of knights and of castellans, and also the beautiful townswomen." "They may be beautiful and the daughters of castellans, but they are not better than my Jagienka!" answered Zych of Zgorzelice. "Did I say they were better?
But as he went there very often, you will find the larder empty; even in the house, there is hardly a bench or a bunch of straw to sleep on; and a sick man needs some comforts. You had better come with me to Zgorzelice. I will be glad to have you stay a month or two. During that time, Jagienka will take care of Bogdaniec. Rely on her and do not bother yourselves with anything.
God knows. Do you know, birdie, where I have just been? Why, at Brzozowa." "For God's sake! What are you saying?" "It is true as truth itself that the Wilks protect Bogdaniec and Zgorzelice against Cztan. Well, it is an easy matter to challenge an enemy and fight him. But to make your enemy into a protector of your own property is a very difficult task."
After my departure Bogdaniec will be under God's care.... When Zbyszko and myself were fighting under Prince Witold, the abbot, also Zych of Zgorzelice, looked somewhat after our small property. Now we shall miss even that little. It pains me terribly to think that my endeavor and labor will be in vain.... You can well form an idea how much this troubles me.
He had never ceased to love Danusia; but while in Bogdaniec and Zgorzelice, chatting almost every day with Jagienka and admiring her beauty, he had not thought about Danusia often. Now she was constantly in his thoughts, day and night. Even in his sleep, he saw her standing before him, with a lute in her hands and a garland on her head. She stretched her hands toward him, and Jurand drew her away.
"Good girl!" thought Zbyszko. After a while he asked: "Was there no trouble with the abbot?" The Czech, an intelligent attendant, who understood what happened around him, smiled and answered: "They were both careful to keep everything secret from the abbot; I do not know what happened when he learned about it, after I left Zgorzelice.
Cztan and Wilk also thought that I should choose one of them, so they kept their temper. But now I stand alone without a protector; then either I shall remain at Zgorzelice in a fortress, like a prisoner, or they will do us some harm without fail. Is it not so?" "Yes," said Macko, "I thought of it myself." "And what did you devise?"
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