'What about me?'
'You don't take us into your confidence about your business affairs, so mind you keep out of ours.'
'It's not only your affair, but concerns the whole village.'
'No, it's nobody's but mine,' snapped Gryb.
'It's mine just as much.'
'That is not so!' Gryb struck the table with his fist: if I don't like a man, he shan't buy, and there's an end of it.'
The publican smiled. Seeing that Slimak was getting pale with anger,
Lukasiak took Gryb by the arm.
'Let us go home, neighbour,' he said. 'What is the good of talking about things that may never come off? Come along.'
Gryb looked at Josel and got up.
'So you are going to buy without me?' asked Slimak.