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 1   III|         King to introduce him to Squire John, the great man ordered
 2    IV|         that very time a country squire was courting the eldest,
 3    IV|   plucked from the tree, and her squire now came to the house to
 4    IV|         banker, and then another squire, and a third and a fourth,
 5   VII|          THE NABOB'S BIRTHDAY.~ ~Squire John's birthday was approaching,
 6   VII|          on earth, the advent of Squire John's birthday festival
 7   VII|        battered and penniless.~ ~Squire John himself was so much
 8   VII|       the Castle of Kárpátfalva, Squire John's favourite residence,
 9   VII|       used to take possession of Squire John. The buffoons and the
10   VII|          and frequently with the squire; the dogs and the bears
11   VII|          property. But the young Squire was suspicious of all premature
12    IX|         happened on the night of Squire John's birthday. Monsieur
13    IX|          Griffard, learning that Squire John was at the last gasp,
14    IX|        pallor rather became her. Squire John was beside himself
15    IX|         And then the bridegroom, Squire John! Where was he, and
16    IX|          each other.~ ~Thereupon Squire John rushed to his carriage,
17    IX|     Drive into Pressburg!" cried Squire John with impatient celerity,
18    IX|          suspicion of a smile.~ ~Squire John laughed good-naturedly
19    IX|    good-humoured, merry, radiant Squire John, pressed the hand of
20    IX|    instant his eyes met those of Squire John, who[Pg 238] had just
21    IX|        white as the wall.~ ~Then Squire John passed on and had himself
22    IX|       need not follow him.~ ~But Squire John Kárpáthy, the happy,
23     X|         the same time delivering Squire John's message; then he
24     X|         midst of which resounded Squire John's stentorian voice.
25     X|         lingered behind to rally Squire John a little.~ ~Kárpáthy
26     X|      face had suddenly convinced Squire John that she was quite
27     X|         ought to have waited for Squire John Kárpáthy to have introduced
28     X|    long-standing legal suit with Squire John Kárpáthy" (i.e. So,
29     X|          good partie, eh!" (i.e. Squire John was already an old
30     X|          family names with which Squire Kárpáthy's director jurium
31     X|      spirits, took possession of Squire John, and, singing and dancing,
32     X| staircase again into the castle. Squire John himself was in the
33    XI|         different eyes, and even Squire John himself began to understand
34    XI|          everything. At any rate Squire John henceforth lived in
35   XII|    cannot be repeated too often. Squire John himself was invincible
36   XII|         retired to his own room. Squire John helped his guests to
37  XIII|    gentlemen in their carriages. Squire John himself was in the
38  XIII|        their merits deserved.~ ~"Squire John, Squire John!" cried
39  XIII|        deserved.~ ~"Squire John, Squire John!" cried Dame Marion,
40  XIII| contagious to the very beasts.~ ~Squire John selected from among
41  XIII|          It was very pleasant to Squire John to find that his wife
42  XIII|     their wives?"~ ~And, indeed, Squire John's affection must have
43  XIII|        Palko immediately mounted Squire John's horse, and Kárpáthy
44  XIII|          the very best hounds of Squire John's - Cziczke, the two
45  XIII|         a practised foe. If only Squire John could now have seen
46  XIII|         poor success, but it did Squire John good to see the attempt,
47    XV|           It says, too, that old Squire John himself invites his
48  XVII|       there during the winter.~ ~Squire John and his wife were just
49  XVII|      Fanny almost collapsed. The Squire felt her arm tremble.~ ~"
50  XVII|       else can it be?" asked the Squire.[Pg 319] He must have been
51  XVII|        from her husband's arm.~ ~Squire John began to laugh.~ ~"
52  XVII|         your hand too?" said the Squire to his wife; "he's the husband
53  XVII|         double disadvantage that Squire John was doubly as sleepy
54   XIX|          can describe the joy of Squire John thereat? What he had
55   XIX|         to be weak now, and when Squire John, in his rapture, raised
56   XIX|          who were standing round Squire John were quite positive
57   XIX|          little soul," stammered Squire John, perceiving that the
58   XIX|           and, taking him out of Squire John's arms, they brought
59   XIX|          voice, "Remember me!"~ ~Squire John did not hear, he did
60   XIX|        look full of feeling upon Squire John.~ ~Her husband rejoiced
61    XX|          had all been planted in Squire John's time.~ ~"Here we
62   XXI|        the day of the funeral.~ ~Squire John was waiting for Rudolf
63   XXI|      through the suite of rooms, Squire John suddenly stopped Rudolf,
64   XXI|         of the witnesses.~ ~When Squire John and Rudolf entered
65   XXI|    befitting the occasion.~ ~The Squire beckoned to everybody to
66   XXI|         a white bench." Here the Squire sighed, half to himself, "
67   XXI|            Furthermore," pursued Squire John, "I bequeath 50,000
68   XXI|     written everything down, the Squire sighed, and hung his head.~ ~"
69   XXI|    longest, or die first?"~ ~The Squire beckoned to the priest to
70   XXI|     grown-up men by then."~ ~The Squire only shook his head, and
71   XXI|         was writing. Only on the Squire's face was there no sign
72   XXI|       have made one of them. The squire lifted him in his arms.
73   XXI|            They noticed that the Squire ate and drank nothing, but
74  XXII|           and he hastened to the Squire's bedroom.~ ~There lay the
75  Note|         happened on the night of Squire John's birthday.~ ~ Chapter