“I am drinking and eating as much as I can.”
“Ungird your belt; then you will be able to eat and drink more. What a beautiful girdle you have! Yon must have taken rich booty in Lithuania!”
“We cannot complain,” answered Zbyszko, gladly seizing the opportunity to explain that the heirs of Bogdaniec were no longer wlodykas. “A part of our booty, we sold in Krakow and received forty silver grzywiens for it.”
“You don’t say so! Why, one can buy an estate for that.”
“Yes. There was one Milanese armor which my uncle, expecting to die, sold for a good price.”
“I know! Well, it is worth while to go to Lithuania. I wanted to go there also; but I was afraid.”
“Of what? Of the Knights of the Cross?”
“Ej, who would be afraid of Germans? I was afraid of those heathenish gods or devils. It seems
