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Manasseh

CHAPTER XVIII
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So you must manage to buy a house-lot or something of the sort in Toroczko." "Have I money enough, do you think, to purchase an iron mine ?" "What, do you really propose to buy one ?" "Yes,--as my dowry to bring to Manasseh.

He said he wished to begin a new career and turn miner." "Very well, then, we'll buy a mine and call it by your name, and it can't fail to turn out a diamond mine." The purchase was made on that very day, and in the evening the transfer of the property was solemnised with a banquet.

It will be noted here that there is a great difference between the Hungarian Unitarians and the English Puritans.

The strict observance of Sunday by the latter presents a marked contrast to the joy and freedom with which the day is celebrated by the former.

The people of Toroczko gather in the evening for social intercourse, and even join in the pleasures of the dance, to the music of a gipsy orchestra, until the ringing of the vesper bell.
Taverns and pot-houses are unknown in the village..


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