He had fallen into the habit of always doing what the Cossack told him to do, obeying mutely, like a well-trained dog, though he obeyed no one else.

The descendant of freemen instinctively lorded it over the descendant of the serf, and the latter as instinctively submitted.
The Count's temper, however, was singularly changeable on this day, for he did not seem to resent Dumnoff's meditated attack upon the package, as he would certainly have done under ordinary circumstances.
"If you are so very curious to know what it is, I will tell you," he said.
"You know the Wiener Gigerl ?" "Of course," answered both men together.
"Well, that is it, in that parcel." "The Gigerl!" exclaimed the Cossack.

Dumnoff only opened his small eyes in stupid amazement.

Both knew something of the circumstances under which Fischelowitz had come into possession of the doll, and both knew what store the tobacconist set by it.
"Then you have paid the fifty marks ?" asked Schmidt, whose curiosity was roused instead of satisfied.
"No.

I shall pay the money to-morrow.