CHAPTER V.But Zbyszko, riding behind him, could not stand it very long, and said to himself: “I would rather have him burst forth in anger, than become embittered.” He therefore rode up to him and jogging his stirrup against his, he commenced to speak: “Listen how it happened. You know what Danusia did for me in Krakow, but you do not know that they proposed to me Jagienka of Bogdaniec, the daughter of Zych of Zgorzelice. My uncle, Macko, was in favor of it, also her parents and Zych; a relative, an abbot, a wealthy man as well…. What is the use of many words?—an honest girl and a beautiful woman and the dowry respectable also. But it could not be. I felt sorry for Jagienka, but still more so for Danusia—and I set out to her to Mazowsze, because, I tell you frankly, I could not live any lo
