‘If Dad don’t take a third wife!’ shouted Jagustynka, somewhere from the third strip.
‘Give over that they just buried their mother in spring,’ said Hanka, in a tone of alarm.
‘What does that bother a man. Every one of ’em’s like that hog: no matter how drunk, he’ll rush to stick his snout in a new through…Ho, ho, one’s still slipping away, still warm…and he’s looking about for another…dogs the whole lot of ‘em.’…What about Sikora? Three weeks after the first one’s buried he marries another.’
‘True, but she left five little’uns behind…’ said Hanka.
‘Indeed! But you’d have to be stupid to think he married for the kids…for himself, more like; it were glum under the quilt alone!’
Władysław Reymont, “The Peasants”, 1909
