"I shall not die.

_Egy az Isten!_"[1] [Footnote 1: See preface.] "_Egy az Isten!_" repeated the elder brother.
Then the young hussar put spurs to his horse and galloped to the head of his little company.
"Come, let us be going," said Aaron, and he led the way toward the farther end of the town, where the family owned a villa which they used whenever occasion called them from Toroczko to Kolozsvar.

Adjoining the house lay a garden which was now rented to a market-woman, who made haste to prepare supper for the travellers.

Blanka went into the kitchen and helped her, but not before the woman had been instructed in what was going on and warned not to breathe a word to the young mistress of the dangers that encompassed them all in those troublous times.

It was Manasseh's desire to lead his bride home without giving her cause for one moment of disquiet on the way.
"Can you sleep in a carriage ?" the market-woman asked her, without pausing in her baking and boiling.