“Danusia will return, she will,” replied Jurand; “she is under God’s protection. But if she returns … listen … take her to Bogdaniec and leave Spychow with Tolima…. He is a faithful man, and this is a wild neighborhood…. There they cannot capture her with a rope … there she is safer….”
“Hej!” cried Zbyszko, “and you talk already as if from the other world.
What is that?”
“Because I went half-way to the other world, and now I seem to be ill. And I also care for my child … because I have only her. And, you too, although I know that you love her….”
Here he interrupted, and drawing a short weapon from its sheath, called the misericordia, he held the handle toward Zbyszko.
“Swear to me now upon this little cross that you will never harm her and that you will love her constantly….”
And tea
