might be so, and that if there was such a chance of taking Yagenka's part, he ought to seize it on the wing. So he pushed from behind the table, and approached Zbyshko with a hostile face.

"How is that, dog brother?" asked he. "Is not Yagenka, the daughter of Zyh, the most wonderful?"

After him came Stan, and people began to crowd around them; for it was known to all present that this would not end in anything common.