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"Are you so frank? Have you opened your heart to me so fully?

First that duel! Then again love and this departure; O, there is

something behind all this! They have been telling me, I have

watched your steps! You are a deceitful, giddy fellow; you have

been telling lies. Where were you going that evening, and what

were you tracking like a setter outside the house? See here,

Thaddeus, maybe you have seduced Zosia and are now running away?

If so, booby, you will not succeed! Whether you like it or not, I

tell you that you shall marry Zosia. Otherwise, the

horsewhip-to-morrow you shall stand before the altar! And you

talk to me of feelings-of an unchanging heart! You are a liar!

Foh! I'll look into your case, Pan Thaddeus, I'll make your ears

smart for you! I've had enough trouble to-day-till my head aches

with it-and now you come to keep me from going to sleep in peace!

Now go to bed!"

So speaking he threw open the door and called the Apparitor to

undress him.