Without dogma Author:Henryk Sienkiewicz Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: wards has had continual worries about her estate, which is very much involved. In addition to all this she suffers from nervous headaches. Aniela belongs to t... more »hat category of women who never trouble themselves about money matters. I like her for that, for it proves that she thinks of higher things. For the matter of that, everything in her pleases and delights me now. Tenderness grows on the soil of attraction by the senses, as quick as flowers after a warm raiu. To-day, in the morning, I saw the maid carrying up her gown and boots; this moved me very much, especially the little, little boots, as if the wearing of them was the crown of all virtues in Aniela. Ploszow, 8 or 9 February. My aunt has taken up her usual warfare with Pan Chwastowski. This is such an original habit of hers that I must describe one of their disputes. The dear lady can evidently not exist without it, or at least not enjoy her dinner; Chwastowski, again, who, by the bye, is an excellent manager, is a compound of brimstone and saltpetre, and does not allow anybody to thwart him; therefore the quarrels sometimes reach the acute state. When entering the dining-room they eye each other with suspicious glances. The first shot is fired by my aunt while eating her soup. "It is a very long time, Pan Chwastowski, since I heard anything about the winter crops, and Pan Chwastowski, instead of giving me the information, speaks about anything but what I want to know." " They were very promising in autumn, my lady; now they are covered by a yard or two of snow, — how am I to know the state they are in ? I am not the Lord Almighty." " I beg of you, Pan Chwastowski, not to take the Lord's name in vain." " I do not look under His snow, therefore do not offend Him." " Do you mean to insinuate that I ...« less