And he began to threaten her with his finger, but looked at her with much pleasure. Because such a girl he never saw before. Upon her head she had a silken red net, and a yellow jacket upon her body and the breeches ample round her hips and tighter above them, of which one little leg was of the same color as the cap (net) upon her head, the other had longwise stripes, with a richly covered little sword at her side, smiling and bright like the dawn. Her face was so exquisite that he could not take his eyes off her.
"My God!" said the overjoyed Macko. "She looks like some marvelous young lady or like a flower, or something else!"
"And this one here—I am sure it must also be somebody in disguise?"
"This is Sieciechowa," answered Jagienka. "It would be improper for me to be alone among you. How could I? Therefore I have taken Anulka[111] with me so that two courageous women will be of help and service. Her also, nobody can recognize."
"There, old woman, you have a marriage feast. One is bad enough, now there will be two."
"Don't tease."
"I am not teasing, but everybody will recognize you and her, in the daytime."
"Pray, and why?"
"In order to go on their knees to you and to her also."
"O, give us peace!…"