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"Beautiful! General, were you ever a confederate? Beautiful,

splendid! That is the Pulawskis'213 thrust! Thus Dzierzanowski214

bore himself! That is Sawa's thrust! Who can so have trained your

arm except Maciej Dobrzynski! But that? General, that is my

invention; in Heaven's name, I do not wish to boast, but that

stroke is known only in Rembajlo hamlet, and from my name it is

called My-boy's slash. Who can have taught it to you? That is my

stroke, mine!"

He rose and clasped the General in his arms.