When he heard this Yatsek set to work quickly, and soon the Bukoyemskis were comforting one another. Their good feeling for Yatsek increased every moment.
"We fought, for that happens to every man," said Mateush, "but right away I thought thee a dignified cavalier."
"Not true; it was I who thought so first," put in Lukash.
"Thou think? Hast thou ever been able to think?"
"I think just now that thou art a blockhead, so I am able to think,--but my mouth pains me."
Thus they were quarrelling already. But that moment a mounted man darkened the window.
"Some one has come!" exclaimed Father Voynovski.
Yatsek went to see who it was, and returned quickly, with troubled visage.
"Pan Gideon has sent a man," said he, "with notice that he is waiting for us at dinner."
"Let him eat it alone!" replied Yan Bukoyemski.