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The Poor Plutocrats

CHAPTER IX
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Nobody, that is, but Mariora, who did not fly with the fugitives, but hid herself in the tent.
"Tobicza had headed the race, but as his legs were heavy with the mead he had drunk, he threw away his big bag of gold to lighten his limbs and prevent Juon from overtaking him.

But Juon, snatching it up, whirled it round like a sling and threw it with all his might after his rival, exclaiming: 'There's your money, big voice! take it and buy a wife with it.

You are nothing at all without it.

But I am still Juon, though I have only an axe in my hands.' "Then he went up to Mariora, kissed and embraced her, and asked her if she would be his bride and go away and live with him in the forest.

And when she said: 'Yes,' he kissed her again and took her with him into the free forest without once looking back at the dowry lying abandoned there with all its gold and glitter.


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