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Father Barski, now a secure, stable priest, looked the role; his parishioners believed the rumor that he was soon to be a bishop.

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Father Barski was slowly learning the intricate operations of the new Polish church as it endeavored to build one solid edifice upon the varied experiences which its Catholics had suffered when living for more than a century under three different jurisdictions.

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And after a while these survivors began to laugh - ugly, convulsive laughs which turned at last into robust guffaws at the idiocy of the world, and when they had purged themselves Bishop Barski thrust the books con - temptuously back into his briefcase.

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Bishop Barski sipped his brandy, studied the glass 'and said hesitantly: 'A man runs a grave risk,

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'Indeed we do,' Bishop Barski granted, 'and it is the protection of that world, such as it is, that concerns me.

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Father Barski, extremely eager, like most priests who sprang from humble families, to retain the support of castle and mansion, refused to perform the ceremony, and had he been an actual resident of the village instead of a casual visitor he could have prevented the marriage from taking place.

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Seweryn, listening carefully to all that was happening in his village, learned that several other peasants were also more attracted to the new Russian scheme of things than to the old Polish ways: 'Father Barski and Pan Bukowski, of course they want us to fight to defend their interests.

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'No, Russia does not/Bishop Barski said very quietly,' and I suppose that's why that great nation with all its power and all its marvelous agricultural land cannot feed itself.

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'But not dictated to by them,' Bishop Barski said.

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