gospodyni

'Come, Soltys,' called the gospodyni, 'you will have supper more comfortably in here.'

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'Come home, come home,' she urged stubbornly, 'I will not die in a strange house, I am a gospodyni, I will not stay here with the Swabians.

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'Don't pull her to pieces,' said the gospodyni, 'pour out the milk and let Maciek feed her, if he is so keen on it.'

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Magda had found another situation by November; her place in the gospodarstwo soon grew cold, no one thought or talked of her, and only the gospodyni asked herself sometimes: 'Were there really a Stasiek in this room once and a Magda pottering about, and three cows in the shed?'

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'What makes you take the cow to Gryb?' asked the gospodyni.

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And is a gospodyni to die in a stranger's house? '

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'Why, Maciek, that sounds as if you had a bad conscience,' said the gospodyni disagreeably.

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'Go to bed, Maciek,' said the gospodyni; 'let that drunkard lie on the manure-heap, because he has been so disagreeable.'

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The gospodarz yawned, the gospodyni was cross, the boys were sleepy, Magda did even less than usual.

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'We must do something with them,' he said to the gospodyni; 'they've drunk a whole bottle of vodka.'

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