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Then two Terajewiczes and four Stypulkowskis and three

Mickiewiczes shouted, "Vivat equality," taking the side of

Skoluba. Meanwhile Buchmann was crying, "Agreement will be our

ruin!" Sprinkler yelled: "We can get along alone without you;

long live our marshal, the Maciek of Macieks! Let him have the

baton!" The Dobrzynskis cried, "We beg you to take it!" but the

rest of the gentry shouted with one voice, "We forbid it!" The

throng was breaking up into two groups, and, nodding their heads

in contrary directions, one faction cried, "We forbid," and the

other, "We beg you."