Chapter

 1    Pref|     story of life in Szeklerland may not be out of place.~ ~The
 2       I|    concerning the young stranger may have been aroused by the
 3       I|         you on your way to Rome, may I ask?" she presently inquired,
 4      II|  wedding-day. Well, however that may be, the prince took the
 5      II|         client's personal appeal may not avail somewhat with
 6      II|          the game. But I fear he may be on this very train. Why,
 7      VI|      centuries to come."~ ~"What may that be?"~ ~"A Pope of the
 8      VI|       present good humour, which may not last."~ ~"But, surely,
 9    VIII|        beyond the Po, as he well may, your client's enemies could
10    VIII|       your journey to Rome, that may very well have been a mere
11    VIII|      route under his escort, you may have done so to avoid suspected
12      IX|        divorce, but only that he may marry you to his protégé
13      IX|              How do you know it, may I ask?"~ ~"Oh, I have wide-reaching
14      IX|         miracle."[89]~ ~"Such it may always remain to you," returned
15      IX|      returned Manasseh, "and you may never know how deep a wound
16       X|     encounter a burglar, that he may try his weapon on him, never
17       X|     understand a word we say. We may consider our interview entirely
18       X|        calmly. "But however that may be, I cannot bind myself
19       X|     exclaimed, "whoever that man may be, I shouldn't like to
20     XII|       won't come back again, you may be sure, unless it be in
21     XII|          Rossis'."~ ~"The artist may have chosen the same point
22     XII|     canvas?"~ ~"Before deciding, may I see a list of those whom
23    XIII|     wanted. Sun, moon, and stars may fall from heaven, but he
24    XIII|          So take them along; you may need them sometime."~ ~"
25    XIII|         of Domine quo vadis? And may not the footprint of an
26    XIII|    Whatever violence the rioters may have allowed themselves
27     XIV|      good as another now. So you may make as much rumpus as you
28     XIV|          heard him exclaim. "You may plunge my whole country
29     XIV|      whole country in blood, you may baptise my countrymen with
30      XV|        neighbourhood. Oh, Aaron, may God forgive you for what
31      XV|      this cherished hope of mine may yet be realised. While the
32      XV|        and threats cannot effect may yet be accomplished by peaceful
33      XV|         known to one man, and he may betray us. You know the
34      XV|        from Monastery Heights. I may perhaps be there before
35     XVI|         took the vacant seat. It may be that the players were
36     XVI|          clouds of tobacco smoke may have rendered it impossible
37     XVI|       beg you to tell me where I may lie down and sleep, for
38    XVII|     renegade from your own midst may not plunge your town into
39   XVIII|        yet I cannot hate him. We may say, 'I loved you yesterday,
40   XVIII|          shall hate you,' and we may act as if we meant it; but
41   XVIII|    return of an absent lover who may perhaps have gone around
42   XVIII|     where he[203] is, but yet it may be that he will come back
43     XIX|        too, a month ago."~ ~"And may I inquire what the princess
44     XIX|       lord and king,' - why, you may find that another woman
45     XIX|        in jest, sinful as it is, may be more to your liking than
46     XIX|         what I have in mind[217] may come to pass. If not, then
47     XIX|         his wife's body, that it may receive proper interment
48     XIX|          a Szekler peasant? That may be allowed to pass among
49     XIX|      said he, "that is a joke we may laugh at, if you like. But
50      XX|       never touch the floor, nor may he, while bobbing thus comically
51      XX|         and here we are. Now you may, if you wish, take me in
52     XXI|         a beautiful afternoon in May, Blanka and Anna, with Manasseh
53     XXI|   elderberry popgun, either. You may depend upon it, she'll sell
54     XXI|       hills, twenty-two villages may be counted from its summit,
55     XXI|        farther side of the gorge may be seen a cave in the rocks,
56     XXI|          Szekler Stone. Yes, you may laugh now, but you won't
57     XXI|        the same? You young women may see my big guns; I'll show
58   XXIII|      ever pass her lips. Now you may go on your errand and need
59   XXIII|     loose change in it which you may divide among you. There
60   XXIII|    promised to hang me. Well, he may break me on the wheel, for
61   XXIII|               Oh, as for me, you may do what you please with
62   XXIII|    children is likely to be, you may conjecture from the fact
63   XXIII|      these," she commanded. "You may need them. I have no further
64   XXIII|      then," said he, "for no one may curse God in his house.
65    XXIV|          what brings you hither, may I ask? You come on behalf
66    XXIV|            Methuselah's grandson may do that kind of thing,"
67   XXVII|        hard thing to bear. A man may suffer the severest physical
68  XXVIII| respected.~ ~"And even though he may never come back, I wish
69  XXVIII|       drawing to a close, and he may[324] be glad to find a place