"Ah!"
"In chains too. I always mocked my swine-herd, who for a year and a half wore out the county court's chains. Ever since he walks with a shambling step, as if one leg was always trying to avoid knocking the other with the chain. Now we can both laugh at each other."
"It would be good to engage a lawyer."
"It will certainly be better to send a sucking pig to the gaoler. Against such pricks, my boy, there is no kicking. This is like a cold bath: if a man enters slowly, bit by bit, his teeth chatter: if he springs in at once, it is even pleasant. Let us talk of more serious matters."
"I just came because I wish to speak to my uncle about a very serious matter."
"Well, out with it."
"I intend to marry Czipra."
Topándy looked long into the young fellow's face, and then said coldly,
"Why will you marry her?"
"Because she is an honest, good girl."