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(Perhaps, however, my use of foray as a translation of zajazd is

due to an unconscious recollection of the title of Miss Biggs's

volumes, which I looked over several years ago, before I had even

formed the plan of my own work.) In my notes, however, my debt to

Miss Biggs and her collaborators in her commentary on Pan Tadeusz

is important; I have striven to indicate it distinctly, and I

thank Miss Biggs heartily for her kind permission to make use of

her work.

To my friend Miss Mary Helen Sznyter I am grateful for aid and

advice in the rendering of several puzzling passages. But my

greatest debt I owe to my wife, whose name, if justice were done,

should be added to my own as joint translator of the volume.

Though she is entirely unacquainted with the Polish language,

nearly every page of the book in its phrasing bears traces of her

correcting hand. The preparation of the volume for the press and

the reading of the proof have been made easy by her skilful help.

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