As you have been so very poor, she may be forgiven for having thought of it.

Tell her that, uncle Josef; and whatever you do, be firm with her." "There she is in the next room," said the father, who had heard his daughter's entrance.

Ziska's face had assumed something of a defiant look while he was recommending firmness to the old man; but now that the girl of whom he had spoken was so near at hand, there returned to his brow the young calf-like expression with which Lotta Luxa was so well acquainted.

"There she is, and you will speak to her yourself now," said Balatka.
Ziska got up to go, but as he did so he fumbled in his pocket and brought forth a little bundle of bank-notes.

A bundle of bank-notes in Prague may be not little, and yet represent very little money.