第412页 / 共788页

When we set to smiting above and below, great men great ones, and

small men small ones, then all the rascals will be overthrown,

and thus happiness and the Polish Commonwealth will bloom again.

Is not this so?"

"As true as if you were reading it out of a book," they said.

"It is true!" repeated Baptist, "drop after drop, every bit."

"I am always ready to shave!" exclaimed Razor.

"Only make an agreement," courteously begged Bucket, "under whose

leadership Baptist and Maciej shall proceed."

But Buchmann interrupted him: "Let fools agree; discussions do

not harm the common weal. I beg you to be silent." ("We are

listening.") "The case gains thereby; the Warden is considering

it from a new point of view."