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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Children of the Soil - -Author: Henryk Sienkiewicz - -Translator: Jeremiah Curtin - -Release Date: February 17, 2014 [EBook #44939] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHILDREN OF THE SOIL *** - - - - -Produced by KD Weeks, Charlene Taylor, Bryan Ness and the -Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net -(This file was produced from images generously made -available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44939 ***</div> <div class="transnote"> @@ -390,7 +350,7 @@ inseparable from characters like those presented in the narrative of Pan Stanislav’s fortunes.</p> <p>The Poles form a part of the great Slav race, which has played so -important a rôle in the world’s history already, and which is destined +important a rôle in the world’s history already, and which is destined to play a far more important one yet in the future.</p> <p>The argument involved in the career and meditations of Pan Stanislav @@ -860,7 +820,7 @@ the chamber.</p> On a time this chamber had been to him a ceaseless temptation, for in it had hung the arms of Plavitski. The only change in it was the wall, which in the old time was rose-colored, and represented, on an -endless number of squares, young shepherdesses, dressed <em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">à la Watteau</em>, +endless number of squares, young shepherdesses, dressed <em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">à la Watteau</em>, and catching fish with hooks. At the window stood a toilet-table with a white cover, and a mirror in a silver frame. On the table was a multitude of little pots, vials, boxes, brushes, combs, nail files, @@ -1829,7 +1789,7 @@ him that his head was moving in a parabola through infinity. Afterward he recovered, and became a priest. We, in like manner, could come to nothing, rest on nothing,—just like birds flying over the sea without a place to light on. But at last I saw two things: first, that my -Belgians were taking all this to heart less than I,—we are more naïve; +Belgians were taking all this to heart less than I,—we are more naïve; second, that my desire for labor would be injured, and that I should become an incompetent. I seized myself, then, by the ears, and began to color cottons with all my might. After that, I said in my mind: Life @@ -1950,7 +1910,7 @@ it is true, to do all in her power to see him paid absolutely, and before others; but she knew that she was not able to effect much. Her father assisted her willingly in management; but in money matters he had his own way; and it was rarely that he regarded her opinion. -His rôle consisted really in evading everything by all means,—by +His rôle consisted really in evading everything by all means,—by promises never kept, by delays, by presenting imaginary calculations and hopes, instead of reality. As the collection of debts secured by mortgage on land is difficult and tedious, and defence may be kept up @@ -2536,7 +2496,7 @@ clever and enterprising; he had more ideas and took in a whole affair with greater ease; but Bigiel watched its execution more carefully. When there was need of energy, or of pushing any one to the wall, Pan Stanislav was the man; but when it was a question of careful thought, -of examining interests from ten sides, and of patience, Bigiel’s rôle +of examining interests from ten sides, and of patience, Bigiel’s rôle began. Their temperaments were directly opposite; and for that reason, perhaps, they had sincere friendship for each other. Preponderance was relatively on the side of Pan Stanislav. Bigiel believed in his @@ -2901,7 +2861,7 @@ an ancient pedagogue about modern times.”</p> <p>“Of a pedagogue?” repeated Vaskovski. “Why, since a morsel of bread fell to me, as from heaven,<a id="FNanchor_3" href="#Footnote_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> I renounced the slaughter of innocents -and the rôle of Herod; secondly, you are mistaken in saying that I +and the rôle of Herod; secondly, you are mistaken in saying that I utter a decree. Almost with joy I see and note new proofs every hour that we are at the end of an epoch, and that a new one will begin shortly.”</p> @@ -3062,7 +3022,7 @@ the study, set aside for the moment his greatness, and, greeting Pan Stanislav, began to speak like an ordinary mortal, not like a great lord or an Englishman.</p> -<p>“With women! with women! <em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">c’est toujours une mer à boire</em> (there is +<p>“With women! with women! <em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">c’est toujours une mer à boire</em> (there is always a sea to drink). I have invested their little capital, and I pay them the interest most regularly. Not enough! They come at least once a week to inquire if there has not been some earthquake.”</p> @@ -3685,7 +3645,7 @@ that gentleman sitting there so gloomy,” said she, pointing to Pan Stanislav, “but really so much in love.”</p> <p>He woke from thoughtfulness, and waved his hand. But Vaskovski inquired -with his usual naïveté of a child,—</p> +with his usual naïveté of a child,—</p> <p><a class="pagenum" id="Page_74" title="74"></a> “Always with Marynia Plavitski?”</p> @@ -4036,7 +3996,7 @@ by it.”</p> to be of use to some one else and to me.”</p> <p>“As to me,” said Pani Emilia, laughing, “since I have undertaken the -rôle of matchmaker for the first time in life, I wish to be of service. +rôle of matchmaker for the first time in life, I wish to be of service. But it is necessary to think what must be done now.”</p> <p>Saying this, she raised her eyes. The light of the lamp fell directly @@ -4124,7 +4084,7 @@ in recent days. Her letter effected this, and the conviction that he had inflicted a wrong on her. Compassion for her seized him now, and he could not think of her without emotion; in consequence of this, the feeling itself increased through two causes, which play a -very important rôle in each masculine heart. First, that energetic, +very important rôle in each masculine heart. First, that energetic, muscular man could never yield passively to the course of events. His nature simply could not endure this. The sight of difficulty roused him to action particularly. Finally, his self-love also was opposed to @@ -4721,8 +4681,8 @@ own undeniable worth, and being conceited enough, he carried within him a conviction, which he would not acknowledge to himself, that it was enough for him to extend his hand to have it seized. This time it turned out differently. That mild Marynia appeared suddenly, not only -in the rôle of a judge, who utters sentences and condemns, but also in -the rôle, as it were, of a queen, with whom it is possible to be in +in the rôle of a judge, who utters sentences and condemns, but also in +the rôle, as it were, of a queen, with whom it is possible to be in favor or disfavor. Pan Stanislav<a class="pagenum" id="Page_97" title="97"></a> could not accustom himself to this thought, and he struggled with it; but such is human nature that, when he learned that for that lady he was not so much desired as he had @@ -4786,7 +4746,7 @@ They are polite people, however.”</p> <p>“Play on.”</p> -<p>Bigiel began to play “Träumerei,” and while playing closed his eyes, +<p>Bigiel began to play “Träumerei,” and while playing closed his eyes, or turned them to the moon. In the stillness the music seemed to fill with sweetness the house, the garden, and the night itself. When he had finished, he was silent for a time, and then said,—</p> @@ -4795,11 +4755,11 @@ finished, he was silent for a time, and then said,—</p> country, and with her Marynia. Maybe those ices will thaw then between you.”</p> -<p>“Play the ‘Träumerei’ once more.”</p> +<p>“Play the ‘Träumerei’ once more.”</p> <p>The sounds were given out a second time, with calmness and imagination. Pan Stanislav was too young not to be somewhat of a dreamer; hence he -imagined that Marynia was listening with him to the “Träumerei,” with +imagined that Marynia was listening with him to the “Träumerei,” with her hand in his hands, with her head on his bosom, loving much, and beloved above all in the world.</p> @@ -5153,7 +5113,7 @@ considering them in Mashko as the acme of perversity, and he determined to pay him if the opportunity offered.</p> <p>Toward the end of the concert he was able to see how far Mashko was -assuming the rôle of suitor. When Marynia, wishing to tie her veil, had +assuming the rôle of suitor. When Marynia, wishing to tie her veil, had removed her gloves and they had fallen from her knees, Mashko raised them and held them, together with her parasol; at the same time he took her wrap from the side of the chair and placed it across his arm, so @@ -5200,7 +5160,7 @@ could not control himself.</p> <p>“This thought that she will marry him is simply a torment to me. And this helplessness! I should prefer anything to such helplessness. I -speak to thee openly. What a stupid and ridiculous rôle I have played +speak to thee openly. What a stupid and ridiculous rôle I have played in the whole affair!”</p> <p>“Thou hast gone too far,—that may happen to any one; that thou wert @@ -5215,7 +5175,7 @@ exploiting thee. No; it was for thee to finish the matter.”</p> <p>Here the prudent Bigiel checked himself, thought a moment, and said,—</p> -<p>“And as to thy rôle, there is one escape: to withdraw completely, leave +<p>“And as to thy rôle, there is one escape: to withdraw completely, leave events to their course, and tell thyself that all is going according to thy idea.”</p> @@ -7883,7 +7843,7 @@ Stanislav noticed that the predominant expression of her face and eyes was a measureless, rigid amazement. As in her eyes there were no tears, so in her mouth there were no words,—merely a kind of whisper, at once tragic and childish, showing that her thought did not take in the -misfortune, but hovered around the minutiæ accompanying it; she seized +misfortune, but hovered around the minutiæ accompanying it; she seized at these, and attended to them with as much carefulness as if her child were alive yet. In the room, now turned into a chamber of mourning, Litka, reposing on a satin cushion amid flowers, could want nothing; @@ -7998,11 +7958,11 @@ tombstones resembling apparitions, the withered leaves on the ground, covering long and straight alleys,—all these produced at once a genuine impression of Elysian fields of some sort, fields full of deep rest, but full also of deep, dreamy melancholy, certain “cold and sad -places” of which the gloomy head of Cæsar dreamed, and to which now was +places” of which the gloomy head of Cæsar dreamed, and to which now was to come one more “animula vagula.”</p> <p>The coffin stopped at last above the open grave. The piercing “<span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Requiem -æternam</span>” was heard, and then “<span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Anima ejus</span>.” Pan Stanislav, through the +æternam</span>” was heard, and then “<span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Anima ejus</span>.” Pan Stanislav, through the chaos of his thoughts and impressions, and through the veil of his own sorrow, saw, as in a dream, the stony face and glassy eyes of Pani<a class="pagenum" id="Page_170" title="170"></a> Emilia, the tears of Marynia, which irritated him at that moment, the @@ -10418,7 +10378,7 @@ a face full of hatred, stubbornness, and contempt. His cheeks were all in spots. He mastered himself more, however, than Gantovski; and, dressed in a long frock-coat, with a high hat on his head, with his long side-whiskers, he seemed too stiff, too much like an actor playing -the rôle of a duelling gentleman.</p> +the rôle of a duelling gentleman.</p> <p>“He will shoot ‘the bear’ like a dog,” thought Pan Stanislav.</p> @@ -10631,8 +10591,8 @@ beginning. Bukatski wrote as follows:—</p> the earth turns around the sun, or isn’t this all a joke? For that matter, it is all one to me! In Warsaw I was sorry for that child who died, and here too I think of her frequently. How stupid - that was! What is Pani Emilia doing? People have their rôle in - the world fixed beforehand, and her rôle came to her with wings + that was! What is Pani Emilia doing? People have their rôle in + the world fixed beforehand, and her rôle came to her with wings and suffering. Why was she good? She would have been happier otherwise. As to thee, O man, show me one kindness. I beg thee, by all things, marry not. Remember that if thou marry, if thou @@ -11482,7 +11442,7 @@ with such thoughts. To-day, while going, he thought that the presence of Marynia would liberate him from them; meanwhile, rather the opposite happened. Litka’s death, which had broken in him trust in the sense and moral object of life, undermined in him<a class="pagenum" id="Page_247" title="247"></a> also that first, former -love for Marynia, which was so naïve and free of doubt; now, when with +love for Marynia, which was so naïve and free of doubt; now, when with Marynia, he was standing at Litka’s grave, when that death, which had begun to be only a memory, had become again a thing almost tangible, its poisoning effect was increasing anew. Again it seemed to him that @@ -11718,7 +11678,7 @@ few weeks after the professor’s departure, and which he read in its integrity to Marynia. This letter was as follows:—</p> <div class="quote"> - <p><span class="smcap">My Dear</span>,—I am lodging at Via Tritone, Pension Française. + <p><span class="smcap">My Dear</span>,—I am lodging at Via Tritone, Pension Française. Visit my Warsaw lodgings; see if Snopchinski looks after my little boys properly, and if the birds of Saint Francis have seeds and water in plenty. When spring comes, it will be needful to open the @@ -12140,7 +12100,7 @@ torpid, at least in a mental sense, during Lent. Bukatski loved them, and amused himself with them. Baron Kot was there, who, because he had heard something from some one of a certain ancient Kot of Dembna, added always, when he was presented, “of Dembna,” and who always answered -everything that was said to him with: “<em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Quelle drôle d’histoire!</em>” +everything that was said to him with: “<em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Quelle drôle d’histoire!</em>” Mashko was on the footing of <em>thou</em> with all these, though he treated them with a certain species of disregard, as well as Kopovski,—a young man with a splendid ideal head, and also splendid eyes without thought. @@ -12502,7 +12462,7 @@ the service of God?”</p> <p>Pan Stanislav received these words at once as he would have received any other, not foreseeing that, in the spiritual process which he was -to pass through later on, they would play a certain rôle by reason of +to pass through later on, they would play a certain rôle by reason of their directness, and said as if repeating mechanically,—</p> <p>“You say the service of God. Very well! I have time; let us go @@ -12832,7 +12792,7 @@ thee, and this is all artificial.”</p> <p><a class="pagenum" id="Page_278" title="278"></a> “But if thou think thyself wise, why arrange life so vainly?” Here Pan -Stanislav looked around on bric-à-brac, on pictures, and added, “In all +Stanislav looked around on bric-à -brac, on pictures, and added, “In all this surrounding thou art still living vainly.”</p> <p>“Vainly enough.”</p> @@ -13558,8 +13518,8 @@ peas, or furnish his Worship of Dogweevil as many bushels as I have promised; whether my plough-horses have the glanders, and my sheep the foot-rot. I should, in my old age, come to this,—that from blunting of faculties I would interject after every three words: ‘Pan Benefactor,’ -or ‘What is it that I wanted to say?’ <em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Voyons! pas si bête!</em> I, a free -man, should become a <em lang="la" xml:lang="la">glebæ adscriptus</em>, a ‘Neighbor,’ a ‘Brother +or ‘What is it that I wanted to say?’ <em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Voyons! pas si bête!</em> I, a free +man, should become a <em lang="la" xml:lang="la">glebæ adscriptus</em>, a ‘Neighbor,’ a ‘Brother Lata,’ a ‘Pan Matsyei,’ a ‘Lechit.’”<a class="fnanchor" id="FNanchor_5" href="#Footnote_5">[5]</a></p> <p>Here, roused a little by the wine, he began to quote in an undertone @@ -13609,7 +13569,7 @@ master-piece of the Venetian school; then he closed his eyes, and hid half of his small face in his enormous fantastic cravat, and whispered,—</p> -<p>“<em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Délicieuse!</em>”</p> +<p>“<em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Délicieuse!</em>”</p> <p>Then, thrusting forth his chin from his cravat, he said,—</p> @@ -13827,7 +13787,7 @@ self-confidence. So, in talking with Marynia, he was not able to refrain from giving her to understand that he had an uncommon head, unquestionably higher than all those around him, like a tree the loftiest in the forest; that he is a man who always reaches the place -at which he has aimed,—in a word, a kind of phœnix in that society, +at which he has aimed,—in a word, a kind of phÂœnix in that society, abounding in men who know not how to help themselves. In the whole world he could not have found a listener more willing and ready to accept everything with the deepest faith.</p> @@ -14012,7 +13972,7 @@ however, he raised his head and said,—</p> on the field, and God grant that it spring up!”</p> <p>Then he began to inquire about Pani Emilia; at last he turned to them -his eyes, which were as if wakened from sleep, and asked naïvely,—</p> +his eyes, which were as if wakened from sleep, and asked naïvely,—</p> <p>“But it is pleasant for you to be with each other?”</p> @@ -14784,7 +14744,7 @@ repeated,—</p> will remain.”</p> <p>In the evening Pan Stanislav and Marynia went to see the sunset from -Trinità dei Monti. The day ended very beautifully. The whole city was +Trinità dei Monti. The day ended very beautifully. The whole city was buried in a kind of hazy golden gleam; under their feet, far down in the valley, on the Piazza di Spagna, darkness was beginning, but a darkness yet lighted, in the mild tones of which irises and white @@ -14792,7 +14752,7 @@ lilies were visible among the flowers set out on both sides of the Via Condotti. In the whole picture there was great and undisturbed repose,—a kind of soothing announcement of night and sleep. Then the Piazza di Spagna began to sink more and more in the shade, but the -Trinità was shining continually in purple.</p> +Trinità was shining continually in purple.</p> <p>Pan Stanislav and Marynia felt this calmness reflected in themselves; they descended the giant stairs then with a wonderful feeling of peace @@ -14926,7 +14886,7 @@ adventure from Pan Stanislav’s mind. Bukatski had long been ill; he complained more and more of a pain in the back of his head, and a strange feeling of separating from his own muscles. His humor revived still at moments, but it shot up and went out like fireworks. He came -to the <em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">table d’hôte</em> more rarely. At last Pan Stanislav received his +to the <em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">table d’hôte</em> more rarely. At last Pan Stanislav received his card one morning; on it these words were written with a very uncertain hand,—</p> @@ -15573,7 +15533,7 @@ for surely he hasn’t mentioned the matter to her. All these are simply suppositions.”</p> <p>Pan Stanislav thought two things: first, that they were not -suppositions; and second, that he had a wife who was as naïve as she +suppositions; and second, that he had a wife who was as naïve as she was honest.</p> <p>But Zavilovski said,—</p> @@ -16173,7 +16133,7 @@ visit.</p> <p>When the visit was made, politeness was shown first of all to Marynia. The husband vied with his wife in this regard. Like well-bred people, they were faultlessly polite to Pan Stanislav, but colder. He -understood that Marynia played the first, and he only the second rôle, +understood that Marynia played the first, and he only the second rôle, and that irritated him a little. Pan Osnovski, for that matter, had no need to make an effort in being polite to Marynia; for, feeling that she had for him earnest sympathy, he repaid her with interest, though, @@ -16421,7 +16381,7 @@ me moonstruck. Thou dost not know Lineta. She needs some uncommon man. She wouldn’t marry Kopovski for anything, though Kopovski looks like an archangel. Such a face as Kopovski has, I have never seen in life. In Italy, perhaps, in some picture, and even then not. Knowest thou what -Lineta says of him?—‘<span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">C’est un imbécile.</span>’ But still she looks at him. +Lineta says of him?—‘<span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">C’est un imbécile.</span>’ But still she looks at him. Think how beautiful that would be, if they should become acquainted, and love, and take each other,—that is, not Kopovski and Lineta, but Zavilovski and Lineta. That would be a couple! Lineta, with her @@ -16755,7 +16715,7 @@ eruption.”</p> <p>And on her face displeasure and confusion were reflected.</p> -<p>Before she took leave, Pani Aneta, without destroying her rôle of +<p>Before she took leave, Pani Aneta, without destroying her rôle of charming prattler, invited Zavilovski for some evening, “without ceremony and without a dress-coat, for such a spring might be considered summer, and in summer freedom is the most agreeable. That @@ -17379,7 +17339,7 @@ as the soul itself is, Zavilovski, like most artists, had the thoughts of a satyr. Those thoughts were sleeping at that time. He arrayed Marynia in so many glories and so much sacredness that he did not desire her; and if, against every likelihood, she were to cast herself -on his neck unexpectedly, she would<a class="pagenum" id="Page_384" title="384"></a> cease to be for him æsthetically +on his neck unexpectedly, she would<a class="pagenum" id="Page_384" title="384"></a> cease to be for him æsthetically that which she was, and which he wished her to be in future,—that is, a stainless being. All the more, therefore, did he judge that he could permit himself such a feeling, and all the more was he grieved @@ -17571,7 +17531,7 @@ for that. In general, men fail to understand many things, for they lack perception. Zavilovski may be an exception in this regard; but if Marynia Polanyetski would tell him, through friendship, to dress with more care and let his beard grow, it would be perfect! “Castelka”<a id="FNanchor_9" href="#Footnote_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a> is -so thoroughly æsthetic that the least thing offends her, though on the +so thoroughly æsthetic that the least thing offends her, though on the other hand he carries her away,—nay, more, he hypnotizes her simply. And with her nature that is not wonderful.</p> @@ -17604,7 +17564,7 @@ for the whole secret he repeated simply,—</p> <p><a class="pagenum" id="Page_389" title="389"></a> And there was truth in this. Pani Aneta might have her own personal object in bringing Zavilovski near “Castelka;” but in its own way that -development of a romance in life and the rôle of a little Providence +development of a romance in life and the rôle of a little Providence occupied and amused her immensely.</p> <p>With these providential intentions she ran in often to Marynia, to @@ -17959,7 +17919,7 @@ If he had considered it proper to call himself to account touching his treatment of her, he would have considered it a thing perfectly natural also that her charm, purely feminine, attracted him now less than it had hitherto. With each day she became uglier, and offended his -æsthetic sense sometimes; he fancied that, concealing this from her, +æsthetic sense sometimes; he fancied that, concealing this from her, and trying to show her sympathy, he was as delicate as a man could well be to a woman.</p> @@ -18265,7 +18225,7 @@ Lineta as to a relative,—and surely she was his nearest relative,—an what remains after us will be hers. Maybe for that reason people surround her so. Though—no! I do not wonder at them. If you knew<a class="pagenum" id="Page_404" title="404"></a> what a torment that is to her, and to me. Two years ago, in Nice, a -Portuguese, Count Jao Colimaçao, a relative of the Alcantaras, so lost +Portuguese, Count Jao Colimaçao, a relative of the Alcantaras, so lost his head as to rouse people’s laughter. Or that Greek of last year, in Ostend!—the son of a banker, from Marseilles, a millionnaire. What was his name? Lineta, what was the name of that Greek millionnaire, that @@ -18345,7 +18305,7 @@ CHAPTER XLV.</h2> <p>From that time Pan Ignas went every day to Aunt Bronich’s. He found Kopovski there frequently, for toward the end something had been -spoiled in the portrait of “Antinoüs.” Lineta said that she had not +spoiled in the portrait of “Antinoüs.” Lineta said that she had not been able to bring everything out of that face yet; that the expression in the picture was not perhaps what it should be,—in a word, she needed time for reflection. With Pan Ignas her work went more easily.</p> @@ -18507,7 +18467,7 @@ in love with Pani Bronich, for this alone,—that he could talk with her from morning till night of Lineta.</p> <p>In consequence of this repeated insistence of Pani Bronich, he visited -also, at this time, old Pan Zavilovski, that Crœsus, at whose house +also, at this time, old Pan Zavilovski, that CrÂœsus, at whose house he had never been before. The old noble, with milk-white mustaches, a ruddy complexion, and gray hair closely trimmed, received him with his foot in an armchair, and with that peculiar great-lord familiarity of a @@ -18833,9 +18793,9 @@ serving-man of the Osnovskis, who was looking at the passing carriages.</p> <p>Pan Ignas went up; but, finding no one in the common drawing-room, he went to the studio. There, too, he found no one; but in the adjoining -smaller chamber certain low voices reached him through the portière +smaller chamber certain low voices reached him through the portière dividing that room from the studio. Thinking to find there both ladies -and Kopovski, he drew aside the portière slightly, and, looking in, was +and Kopovski, he drew aside the portière slightly, and, looking in, was stupefied.</p> <p>Lineta was not in the room; but Kopovski was kneeling before Pani @@ -18849,7 +18809,7 @@ passion.</p> <p>“I love—but no! I don’t want that,” answered Pani Osnovski, pushing him away somewhat.</p> -<p>Pan Ignas dropped the portière with an involuntary movement; for a +<p>Pan Ignas dropped the portière with an involuntary movement; for a moment he stood before it as if his feet had grown leaden. Finally, without giving himself a clear account of what he was doing, he passed through the studio, where the sound of his steps was deadened on the @@ -19443,7 +19403,7 @@ him that there might exist even such conditions in which the soul of a man simply despises a woman, but the human beast longs for her.</p> <p>In her, instinct had taken the place of mental keenness; besides, she -was not so naïve as not to know what his glance meant as it slipped +was not so naïve as not to know what his glance meant as it slipped over her form, or what his eyes said when talking, especially when they were alone, and he looked into her face with a certain persistence. At first she felt a kind of satisfaction for her self-love, which it @@ -19646,7 +19606,7 @@ universe.</p> <p>But that was only a dream from which he had to wake.<a class="pagenum" id="Page_436" title="436"></a> After a certain time the aunt began to open the door gently, as if wishing to lose the least possible of the romance, in which, with Teodor’s aid, she -was playing the rôle of guardian spirit; in the adjoining chamber +was playing the rôle of guardian spirit; in the adjoining chamber were heard the voices of the Osnovskis; and a moment later Lineta found herself in the arms of her aunt, from which she passed into the embraces of Pani Aneta. Osnovski, pressing Ignas’s hands with all his @@ -19819,7 +19779,7 @@ poor; and therefore I love him.”</p> <p>“And I love him,” answered Pani Bronich. “But you will be at the betrothal?”</p> -<p>“<em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">C’est décidé.</em> Even though I had to be carried.”</p> +<p>“<em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">C’est décidé.</em> Even though I had to be carried.”</p> <p>Pani Bronich returned radiant, and at lunch could not restrain herself from expressing suppositions which her active fancy had begun to create.</p> @@ -19842,7 +19802,7 @@ whispered in her ear,—</p> So mamma is immensely curious to know what kind of ring you are preparing for Nitechka? It will be something beautiful, of course. There will be so many people at the betrothal. And, besides, you have<a class="pagenum" id="Page_440" title="440"></a> -no idea what a fastidious girl! She is so æsthetic even in trifles; and +no idea what a fastidious girl! She is so æsthetic even in trifles; and she has her own taste, but what a taste! ho, ho!”</p> <p>“I should like,” answered Pan Ignas, “the stones to be of colors @@ -19870,7 +19830,7 @@ sympathetic person, and Nitechka could not endure him. But the little one will be glad of the ring; and when she is glad, I am glad.”</p> <p>The “Little One” was glad not only of the ring, but of life in general. -The rôle of an affianced assumed for her increasing charm. Beautiful +The rôle of an affianced assumed for her increasing charm. Beautiful nights came, very clear, during which she and Pan Ignas sat together on the balcony. Nestling up to each other, they looked at the quivering of light on the leaves, or lost their gaze in the silver dust of the @@ -19900,7 +19860,7 @@ universal harmony.</p> certain turning of the head, as it were, a kind of intoxication from his flight, and she felt herself happy also. A woman even incapable of loving a man is still fond of her love, or, at least, of herself, -and her rôle in it; and, therefore, most frequently she crosses the +and her rôle in it; and, therefore, most frequently she crosses the threshold of betrothal with delight, feeling at the same time gratitude to the man who opens before her a new horizon of life. Besides, they had talked love into Lineta so mightily that at last she believed in it.</p> @@ -19936,7 +19896,7 @@ before that one must go and go, and toil, and I am so lazy.”</p> child, and carry her even to the highest.”</p> <p>“And I will shrink up and make myself the smallest,” answered Lineta, -closing her arms, and entering into the rôle of a little child.</p> +closing her arms, and entering into the rôle of a little child.</p> <p>Pan Ignas knelt before her, and began to kiss the hem of her dress.</p> @@ -20359,7 +20319,7 @@ but earlier; and his wish was gratified all the more, since Lineta, who wished to show herself to people as already betrothed, supported him before Aunt Bronich. They felt freer thus; and when people began to assemble they appeared as a young couple. The light of happiness shone -from Lineta. She found a charm in that rôle of betrothed; and the rôle +from Lineta. She found a charm in that rôle of betrothed; and the rôle added charm to her. In her slender form there was something winged. Her eyelids did not fall to-day sleepily over her eyes; those eyes were full of light, her lips of smiles, her face was in blushes. She was so @@ -20414,7 +20374,7 @@ he wished to show,—</p> <p>“Now love and revere each other, like honest people.”</p> <p>Lineta opened the case, in which on a sapphire-colored satin cushion -gleamed a splendid <em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">rivière</em> of diamonds. The old man said once more +gleamed a splendid <em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">rivière</em> of diamonds. The old man said once more with emphasis, “From the family of the Zavilovskis,” wishing evidently to show that the young lady who married a Zavilovski, even without property, was not doing badly. But no one heard him, for the heads of @@ -20434,7 +20394,7 @@ were so occupied with each other that the whole world vanished from before them. Osnovski and Svirski went up to Marynia and Pani Bigiel. Kopovski undertook to entertain the lady of the house; Pan Stanislav was occupied with Pani Mashko. As to Mashko himself, he was anxious -evidently to make a nearer acquaintance with the Crœsus, for he +evidently to make a nearer acquaintance with the CrÂœsus, for he so fenced him off with his armchair that no one could approach him, and began then to talk of remote times and the present, which, as he divined easily, had become a favorite theme for the old man.</p> @@ -20588,7 +20548,7 @@ conversation, and he looks at once weary and angry.”</p> annoyed a little, surely; and the moment he is annoyed he is angry.”</p> <p>And she fell into perfect good-humor. She would have been glad to give -a <em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">rivière</em> of diamonds, like that which Pan Zavilovski had brought +a <em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">rivière</em> of diamonds, like that which Pan Zavilovski had brought to Lineta, to make “Stas” approach at that moment, to say something herself to him, and hear a<a class="pagenum" id="Page_457" title="457"></a> kind word from him. In fact, a few minutes later her wish was accomplished, for Osnovski approached Pani Mashko; @@ -21359,7 +21319,7 @@ were more in the spirit of safely thinking people; but in general he was reconciled to the existence of poetry, and even praised it. His favorable inclination both to poetry and the poet were evident from his look, his smile, and the frequent repetition, “but of course,—of -course,—but very!” Pan Ignas, who was in many regards naïve, but at +course,—but very!” Pan Ignas, who was in many regards naïve, but at the same exceptionally intelligent, still understood that in all this there was some pretence, hence he thought: “Why does this, as it were, thinking man pose in such style that it is evident?”</p> @@ -23154,7 +23114,7 @@ CHAPTER LIII.</h2> <p>“My dear Pan Ignas, why do you not dress like Pan Kopovski?” asked Pani Bronich. “Naturally, Nitechka values your poetry more than all costumes -on earth; but you will not believe how æsthetic that child is, and +on earth; but you will not believe how æsthetic that child is, and what perfect knowledge she has in such matters. Yesterday, the poor dear came to me with such a pretty face that if you had seen her you would have melted. ‘Aunt,’ said she, ‘why does Pan Ignas not have white @@ -23234,7 +23194,7 @@ self-denials for his sake; these <em>self-denials</em> had not taken place yet. Pan Ignas did not over-estimate himself, but also he did not carry his head lower than was needful; and with that which was in him he considered himself not a worse, but a better match than such men -as Kopovski, and the various Colimaçaos, Kanafaropuloses, and similar +as Kopovski, and the various Colimaçaos, Kanafaropuloses, and similar operatic lay figures. He was indignant at the very thought that they dared to compare these men with him, especially to his disadvantage. Having poetry and love in his soul, he judged that he had that which @@ -23266,7 +23226,7 @@ which are higher, lose esteem for them through this familiarity, as if showing involuntarily that whatever becomes near to them must thereby be infected with vulgarity and meanness, and cannot, for that very reason,<a class="pagenum" id="Page_518" title="518"></a> continue lofty. Meanwhile Pani Bronich disenchanted him more -and more. He was impatient at that convenient “Teodor,” whose rôle it +and more. He was impatient at that convenient “Teodor,” whose rôle it was to shield with his dignity from beyond the tomb every act of hers; he was amazed at that bird-like mobility of her mind which seized on the wing everything from the region of the good and the beautiful, and @@ -23297,7 +23257,7 @@ one reason,—that they array the beloved in all their own sunbeams, not accounting to themselves afterward that this glory with which they are blinded has been put by themselves there. So it was with, Pan Ignas. Lineta became accustomed more and more every day to him, and to her own -rôle of betrothed. The thought that he had distinguished her, raised +rôle of betrothed. The thought that he had distinguished her, raised her above others, chosen her, loved her, from having been, as once, a continual living source of satisfaction to her vanity and pride, was beginning to lose the charm of novelty, and grow common. Everything @@ -23462,7 +23422,7 @@ fondlingly through the soft cloth; and how could that bony Pan Ignas, with his insolent Wagner jaw<a class="pagenum" id="Page_523" title="523"></a> and his long legs, be compared, in the eyes of those ladies, with that “mignon” who called to mind at once the gods of Greece and the fashion sheets, the glyptotheks of Italy -and the <em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">table d’hôtes</em> of Biarritz or Ostend. One should be such an +and the <em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">table d’hôtes</em> of Biarritz or Ostend. One should be such an original as that still-water Steftsia to insist, unless from malice, that he was an insufferable puppet. Castelka, it is true, laughed when Svirski said that Kopovski, especially when some question was put to @@ -23612,7 +23572,7 @@ most subtle movement of thoughts, and even dispositions, take on not only the form, of far-reaching events, but frequently conceal the actual germs of such events in themselves. Externally life remained just the same it had been; that is, a kind of daily festival, a May -day, country idleness, interwoven with love, æsthetic impressions, more +day, country idleness, interwoven with love, æsthetic impressions, more or less witty conversations, and, finally, amusements. The arrangement of a whole series of these amusements, to fill out the day, was the sole occupation which weighed on their thoughts; and even this, for the @@ -23635,7 +23595,7 @@ joined to loss of speech; Panna Ratkovski, who had spent some time at Pan Zavilovski’s, and cherished great friendship for him and his daughter, grew pale in real earnest; Panna Lineta, seizing Pani Bronich’s hand, tried to restore her to consciousness, whispering, -“<em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Voyons, chère, tu n’es pas raisonnable!</em>” Pani Aneta, as if wishing +“<em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Voyons, chère, tu n’es pas raisonnable!</em>” Pani Aneta, as if wishing to verify with her own eyes the substance of the announcement, took the card from her husband’s hands, and read,—</p> @@ -24004,7 +23964,7 @@ If he did not keep his word, or if he did not try to keep it, may the Lord God forgive him, as I forgive him! Wealth, of course, amounts to nothing. Who has given a better example than Nitechka of disregard for wealth? Were it the opposite, she would not have refused such matches -as the Marquis Jao Colimaçao, or Pan Kanafaropulos. You must have heard +as the Marquis Jao Colimaçao, or Pan Kanafaropulos. You must have heard also of Pan Ufinski,—that same who, with his famous silhouettes, bought for himself a palace in Venice. His last work was to cut out the Prince of Wales. This very year he proposed to use for Nitechka. Oh, @@ -24016,7 +23976,7 @@ great sacrifice.”</p> <p>Pan Stanislav was an energetic man; angered by the last words of Pani Bronich, he answered,—</p> -<p>“I have not known either the Marquis Jao Colimaçao or Pan +<p>“I have not known either the Marquis Jao Colimaçao or Pan Kanafaropulos, but in this country they are rather fantastic names. I will suppose that Panna Castelli marries Pan Zavilovski out of love; in that case, every sacrifice is excluded. I am an outspoken man, and @@ -24510,7 +24470,7 @@ Bronich, with enthusiasm.</p> <p>“Beloved aunt! I remind thee that we are alone.”</p> -<p>“But it depended on Nitechka to become the Marchioness Colimaçao.”</p> +<p>“But it depended on Nitechka to become the Marchioness Colimaçao.”</p> <p>“<em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">La vie parisienne!</em>” answered Osnovski. “Aunt knows that operetta. There is a Swiss admiral in it.”</p> @@ -24600,7 +24560,7 @@ will serve thee.”</p> <p>And they went out of the conservatory.</p> -<p>“But they have left us alone for once even,” said Kopovski, naïvely.</p> +<p>“But they have left us alone for once even,” said Kopovski, naïvely.</p> <p>Lineta did not answer; but, taking Kopovski’s white-leather cigarette-case, which was lying on the table, began to draw it across @@ -25278,7 +25238,7 @@ voice trembled with emotion.</p> <p>Pan Stanislav, though for him it was a question mainly of Pan Ignas, was simply astounded that a man who, some minutes before, understood -things so profoundly and well, could be so naïve. A bitter smile came +things so profoundly and well, could be so naïve. A bitter smile came on him, too, at mention of Pani Mashko’s indignation. In general, he was seized by a feeling of a certain crushing irony of life, the whole immensity of which he had never seen before so distinctly.</p> @@ -25338,7 +25298,7 @@ winter—and that is life.”</p> on a basis purely personal, they became at once a kind of reckoning with his conscience. He was enough of an egoist to refer everything to himself; and he was not fool enough not to see that in that most -ironical human comedy he was playing a rôle immensely abject. His +ironical human comedy he was playing a rôle immensely abject. His position was of that sort that he wished with all the power of his breath to hiss that Panna Castelli; and still he understood that if there was any one who was not free to judge her, it was he. In what was @@ -25435,7 +25395,7 @@ case. Besides, who can hinder him from hiding? In his place, I should hide too,—I must go to Pani Emilia’s.”</p> <p>He felt so tired from that sudden tragedy, from thoughts about himself, -and thoughts about the difficult rôle which he had to play with Pan +and thoughts about the difficult rôle which he had to play with Pan Ignas, that he remembered with some satisfaction that he must go to Pani Emilia’s and take her to Buchynek. For a moment he was tempted to defer the interview with Pan Ignas, and the delivery of the letter, @@ -27595,12 +27555,12 @@ kindly sort of woman.”</p> <p>“I hear that she is a very good daughter,” answered Pan Stanislav.</p> <p>“I noticed that when I was there; but, as is usual with an old sceptic, -it occurred to me at once that she finds pleasure also in the rôle of a +it occurred to me at once that she finds pleasure also in the rôle of a careful daughter. Do you not see women often doing good of some special sort because they think that it becomes them?”</p> <p>And Svirski was not mistaken. In fact, Pani Mashko found pleasure in -the rôle of a self-sacrificing daughter. But that itself was very much, +the rôle of a self-sacrificing daughter. But that itself was very much, since such a satisfaction flowed still from real attachment to her mother, and because at sight of her misfortune something was roused in the woman, something quivered. At the same time Svirski did not wish, @@ -29256,7 +29216,7 @@ and that if he did bend, it was because he loved much.” And she just grew every day. Gratitude rose in her, and she paid him for his love with her whole heart.</p> -<p>The young “Aryan” filled his rôle of a ray in the house splendidly. +<p>The young “Aryan” filled his rôle of a ray in the house splendidly. Sometimes it was, indeed, a ray connected with noise; but when he was in good-humor, and when, lying in his favorite position, with his legs raised at right angles, he drew cries of delight from himself, all the @@ -29395,7 +29355,7 @@ Pan Stanislav.</p> sometimes He permits misfortune to beat a man on the head as with a hammer, so as to knock some spark of honesty out of him. I believe now even in the rebirth of such as Pani Aneta. Maybe - it is naïve in me, but at times I admit that there are no people + it is naïve in me, but at times I admit that there are no people in the world who are completely bad. See, something quivered in Pani Aneta even; she nursed him in his sickness. Oi, those women! Everything is so turned around in my head that soon I shall not @@ -30043,7 +30003,7 @@ With Panna Ratkovski, Svirski wished to avoid spiritual relationship, a hindrance to marriage.</p> <p><a id="Footnote_16" href="#FNanchor_16"><span class="label">[16]</span></a> -Pronounced Márees, a diminutive of Marynia.</p> +Pronounced Márees, a diminutive of Marynia.</p> </div> </div> @@ -30129,383 +30089,7 @@ correct spelling.</p> </div> - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Children of the Soil, by Henryk Sienkiewicz - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHILDREN OF THE SOIL *** - -***** This file should be named 44939-h.htm or 44939-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/4/9/3/44939/ - -Produced by KD Weeks, Charlene Taylor, Bryan Ness and the -Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net -(This file was produced from images generously made -available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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