“Do you tell me that? Do you know those places?”
“I know only Lyubovich and Sheputy, for they are near my land. The forest boundary alone is ten miles long, and the fields and meadows are as much more.”
“Where are they?”
“In Vityebsk.”
“Oh, far away! the affair is not worth the trouble, and the country is under the enemy.”
“When we drive out the enemy we shall come to the property. But the Podbipientas have property in other places,—in Jmud very considerable, I know, for I have a piece of land there myself.”
“I see that your substance is not a bag of chopped straw.”
“It brings in nothing now. But I need nothing from others.”
“Advise me how to put that maiden on her feet.”
Kmita laughed.