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But the Judge said: "Hurry up, my dear Count, for it is already

late!" And the Monk Robak called out with a threatening mien:

"Enough of this; hurry up!" Thus the orders of the Judge and the

Monk separated the tender pair and drove them from the room.

Meanwhile Thaddeus had embraced his uncle with tears and was

kissing Robak's hand. Robak, pressing the lad's brow to his

breast and hying his palms crosswise on his head, gazed aloft and

said: "My son, may God be with you!" Then he began to weep. But

Thaddeus was already beyond the threshold.

"What, brother?" asked the Judge, "will you tell him nothing? not

even now? Shall the poor lad still remain in ignorance, now that

he is going to leave us!"