Every one felt that the little old woman would have her share in the success of the town.
"Good-morning, young woman. How are you?"
"Very well, thank you, my child."
"How is business, young woman?"
"Thank you, my child, I get on very well."
They were all glad, oh, so glad, that the "young woman" was so healthy and strong, and that she got richer day by day; they boasted of it where-ever they went.
"Our Rosália is getting on well. It is easy to get on in Bábaszék, we are good-natured people."
They really made things very comfortable for Rosália. She was over seventy, but they still called her "mlada pani" (young woman). As the king reserves to himself the right of conferring various titles, so the people have adopted the plan of conferring the "title of youth," and make use of it when and where they like.
Well, as I said before, they took great care of Rosália, and when, a few years after her arrival there, she decided to build a stone house, every one who owned a cart placed it at her disposal, for the carting of stones, sand, wood, etc.; the bricklayers gave a day's work without wages; only one or two of the lazier ones did not join the rest on that day, but were sent to Coventry for it.
"Good-for-nothing fellows," said every one, "they have no respect for any one, neither for God, the priest, nor a Jew!"