The Knights of the Cross - or, Krzyzacy by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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enough for all that you have brought us."
"What have you brought?" asked Zbyszko, looking around the court-yard; but he did not see anything except the black horse tied to the post. "The wagons have not come yet; but they will soon be here," answered Jagienka. Macko began to enumerate what she had brought; but when he mentioned the two beds, Zbyszko said: "I am satisfied to sleep on the urus' skin; but I thank you because you thought about me also." "It was not I; it was _Tatulo_," answered the girl, blushing. "If you prefer to sleep on the skin, you can do it." "I prefer to sleep on what I can. Sometimes after a battle, I slept with a dead Krzyzak instead of a pillow under my head." "You do not mean to tell me that you have ever killed a Krzyzak? I am sure you have not." Zbyszko, instead of answering, began to laugh. But Macko exclaimed: "For heaven's sake, girl, you do not know him yet! He has never done anything else, but kill the Germans. He can fight with an axe, a spear or with any weapon; and when he sees a German from afar, one must tie him with a rope, or else he will rush against him. In Krakow he wanted to kill the envoy, Lichtenstein, and for that he barely escaped execution. |
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