Note 4 — Chapter III · BUKOWINA-GYPSY STORIES

Then he ordered a band to play music, and arranged for a ball. Then he invited all the gentry in that country, invited all of them; and his parents too came. This he did that he might find out who were his parents. Right enough they came; and he, Jankos, at once knew his mother—my God had ordained it, that he at once should know her. Then he asks his mother,4 does Jankos, what a man deserved who ruins two souls, and is himself alive.