generously embroidered on a breast, suntanned, bared above an elbow hand.
- Satisfy thirst, warriors, - spoke to Ania on-velkhski. Solvennskoy
and the more so she did not own the Vienna speech. And from fear that stay not
will understand and will take offense, blushed crimson - bright and bystry what Gods often
award red-haired.
- Truly our circles are empty, - the Wolfhound in language of western answered
velkh. - Whether it happens so that your hands will fill them, kaylin-og?
The girl reddened is even hotter. Kaylin-og meant the bride. It
told:
- About it there is also an arrangement between owners and guests.
The smooth movement she dipped into a jug long, slightly curved
the peaked cherpachok turned from an integral canine of some animal
Monomatana who was suiting for great-grandfathers to all tigers.
The entertainment, has to be accepted and tried, otherwise you are an enemy, but not the friend.
The wolfhound substituted a mug, and in it poured down... the kind kvass smelling
sweet rye crackers. Ketarn, it is necessary to believe, asked the bride
at all not about that, but she disposed at discretion.
It poured to kvass to twins, and the Wolfhound asked it:
- Whether you will happen to sit near us under a roof of this house?
Too it is impossible to refuse such invitation, and Ketarn could how many
it is necessary to fidget and be angry on the crumpled skin near a wall. To Ania drew in legs and
villages against the Wolfhound. Any вельх was capable to stay so in the afternoon. In
difference from Likhoslav and Likhobor who were in time to namozolit sinewy to an itch
backs.
Very few people would call to Ania the beauty, but to the Wolfhound she is very much
it was pleasant. Full-faced, lovely, some surprisingly house. And with
such kind slyness in brown eyes, which, seemingly, yet not
it happened to reflect neither suffering, nor fear.
- From whom you protect a ban-riona here, among friends? - she asked.
She noticed an attentive look of the Wolfhound, tirelessly running all over
feasting.
Veins thought and answered:
- From foreign person who could make the way for a holiday and make
to madam harm, and to you offense.
- You, probably, long lived among velkh, - the girl told. - You
you talk as one of us.
- I had friends of a velkha, kaylin-og, - the Wolfhound answered. And
touched by a palm of her hand holding a jug. - Kindly to you for a gift
drink and for the fact that decorated our feast.
Women are wiser than men, he thought, looking in a back to the bride going to
to the groom. The woman will not begin to lift up the guest and to try to find out in what
to such drunk fight to it unstitched a face if it was not honored
хоробрствоватъ at Three Hills...
Still he saw how Ketarn on approaching it to Ania and as looked
the irritation thawed and slipped with its linden, expelled by an uncontrollable smile.
Four huge good fellows dragged in the heat of a feast outside
huge wooden dish. The boar, entirely fried was based upon a dish
over coals. Velkh considered a veprevina food of courageous heroes, the main thing
and the most delicious food, worthy to crown a festive celebration.
The wolfhound not especially was surprised, having heard that boar got not who other,
as Ketarn. It only should have been expected.
The dish was solemnly put before a knesinka and handed to it big,
ancient look, the polished bronze knife. Start up a ban-rion on
justice will divide a wild boar and itself will hand the first share - a juicy chunk
gammons - to the best of the heroes sitting here on a feast.
According to the Wolfhound, the providchesky gift that was not required
to define this the best of the best at once and without mistake. Who was now
the first guy in Klyuchinke who and was held apart by violent daring, which of skin
climbed, proving the courage to itself and others?.
Knesinka quietly asked about something Kesana a threshing barn, that also quietly answered.
Elen Gluzdovna dexterously found a precious piece from the smoking ink and
highly lifted it, having pierced a knife:
- Whether it is right that there will be here nobody whose truth of spirit was made even
with Ketarn's truth, the son Kesan and Gorrakh?
A half of klyuchinsky velkh rose on legs with a cry now:
- Will not be!
Other half raised a roof an amicable roar:
- Will be!
There came the long-awaited instant, the favourite fun - comparison began
husbands. A competition which till the following holiday all will have on
lips. Hundred years ago comparison of husbands came to an end, happened, and blood.
Now people grew wiser and were limited to a verbal sparring and if
reached fights, just on fists.
Jealous guys and young men began to remember in eager rivalry
To Ketarn any shortcomings and sins doing him in opinion
debaters, unworthy the first piece from ban-riona hands. Ketarn's friends and
it seated vituperators into place, behind another cutting off one ridiculous and
poisonous remarks.
- Not to you to discredit Ketarn: all saw, how on you the wife a rag
raised!
- Not to you to be spacing out on the first piece, you on a festival of Horses in
keg with beer burned... Dissatisfied were not given:
- From you, Ketarn, since the birth was not to use, - rose
the soldier, svetlousy, very similar on Ania, with the brawny hands twisted
blue tapes of a tattoo. - You do not remember probably as turned on itself
kettle with boiled water and your respectable mother carried you in a shed - to put in
fresh cow manure? You, in my opinion, so were also not washed properly with
that to time...
- Ask the sister, Feradakh! Whether only it then scalded the back or,
can, still something? - with laughter gave the vote sitting beside it.
Feradakh. The little girl's brother, the Wolfhound noted about himself. Red-haired to Ania
again reddened and hid the flashed cheeks in palms. For her groom
chernokudry Ertan, that interceded that won a gallop of chariots:
- You would keep silent, Feradakh! Not to you to discredit the courageous husband,
which and then already, is told, did not peep while to it burns treated. But you,
as your venerable father told me, the boy was afraid to approach to
to raspberry because beehives stood nearby and bees stung you!
When sharing of a boar began, the Wolfhound pricked up ears: would not undertake
to shake the restive people fists, it should not defend a knesinka from
too violent fun of owners. However velkh, both klyuchinsky, and neighbors,
it was felt, loved the elder's son. And not so much ran down it,
how many gave the chance to prove to be. The wolfhound saw how twirled
heads Likhoslav and Likhobor. Adolescents liked a noisy velkhsky entertainment,
it is a pity only, both good fellows were alien here and to participate at everything
desire could not. Having noticed the mentor's look, twins ceased to stare
also remembered that they at business.
Velkh outvoiced each other as if pack of daws before a decline.
However hearing of the Wolfhound had
one useful feature: among any
din of veins it was capable to distinguish weak rustle, to catch the word,
said in a low voice.
Elen Gluzdovna just bent to warm up the piece which is put on a knife
over brazier coals when Luchezar turned to Kesan, with which nearby
sat, and asked:
- Means, the elder, you marry the younger son soon?
- Your truth, the voivode, I marry, - with advantage responded threshing barns, but
To wolfhound in his voice a certain vigilance was heard again.
- And what whether the bride is good? - ironing moustaches, the boyar took an interest, and
here veins understood the reason of restraint of Kesan, and heart at him missed a bit. About
Luchezar's zhenolyubiya it had heard a lot more than enough.
- It is pleasant to the son, and other lump, maybe, and it is bad, - absolutely already
reluctantly the elder responded.
Really, the Wolfhound gasped about himself, Luchezar will have enough mind for the sake of empty
short delight to call in on a visit a trouble? To Opolchit on itself and the knes
aggressive, quick-tempered and proud people?.
He, however, saw how adherents of gray powder otmachivat things
where as more abruptly, for sane mind already at all incomprehensible.
The skirmish between velkha settled meanwhile, and the knesinka handed
to the shining Ketarn the odorous, proceeding dense hot juice chunk.
The subsequent pieces distributed with an abuse and a furious dispute too.
Dark-haired Ertan wished to participate in sharing on an equal basis with guys and
even called one of them altercating up to the end on single combat.
As many local women, it walked in spacious trousers,
grabbed with a tape at ankles. And in a shirt without sleeves. In opinion
Wolfhound, this shirt very much to it went. It to the shoulders opened gentle
skin under which were rolled firm as a fine-molded bone, knots of muscles.
Lovely sight, but not the maid!
Hand-to-hand was started before the seat of a knesinka, and the Wolfhound involuntarily
moved forward. He knew how many anything can happen here
incidentally and not absolutely. However, to its simplification, business came to an end quickly.
The rival Ertan managed to be fitted decently and worthy
did not manage to show resistance. The girl overturned it on a sex of one
good box on the ear and, smiling broadly, approached behind the share of honourable
entertainments.
When a boar it was finished, guests from the marsh village
started to hurry home. The wolfhound looked eyes to Ania and saw her with
parents, brother and groom. It was worth looking at fiery once
mane of her father, a kolesnik Fakhtna to think in whom it was successful with
such copper hair.
If the Wolfhound understood something, parents wanted to take away to Ania home, and
she asked for leave to stay a little more during the holiday and nodded on the groom:
will take supposedly the home, from hands will transfer to hands. And even in
Klyuchinke at Ketarn's mother can be spent the night, not for the first time...
Do not let! - mentally the Wolfhound appealed to the wheel master, but on
parts of suggestion of thoughts to it it was far to Tilorn. Fakhtna did not hear it.
Exchanged glances with the wife and, having smiled to the daughter, allowed it to remain.
Probably, remembered youth and how itself valued every moment,
carried out beside the bride.
Kesan-rig meanwhile called up the son and strictly told something to him.
The wolfhound did not doubt what there was a speech about. Ketarn nodded, but somehow
absent-mindedly. The favourite of the village who is not waiting for a dirty trick neither from the nor from strangers.
Still the Wolfhound noticed and understood disappointment of the elder: how to force the son
to keep the girl, without having incited it at the same time against notable guests?.
The youth started dancings, fuss and some competitions at fires in
the yard, and a knesinka, having got tired, was going to be removed in taken away for
it house.
- The monarchess, - the Wolfhound quietly addressed her. - Order that
the bride Ketarna served you together with girls tonight and in the morning...
He did not finish speaking yet, and some internal feeling already prompted
to it that the knesinka will not listen to. And precisely. Elen Gluzdovna annoyancely
pulled to a coat hanger:
- For what reason? to me here as it is great honors were done...
The wolfhound only mentally swore. The most last business to embroil
among themselves relatives. And it seems still prove Luchezar's intention.
The wolfhound, however, was not going to prove someone something.
As well as to allow an indecency.
He went after a knesinka to its yard and tensely tried
to think that will be undertaken now by the boyar, - and that Luchezar,
okhrenevshiya without favourite powder and hundred-held down on maiden beauty,
something yes will undertake, veins almost did not doubt. Most likely, it
will send for the girl of adolescents. Three, it is necessary to think. It is unlikely it is more, but
not less. To Plishk with Kanoan? No, hardly. Why so, Wolfhound not
would undertake to explain, just felt that they will not be there. Still it
very much wanted to be mistaken and find out that said a slander Luchezar.
Life, however, more than once dinned into it that it should have been counted
on the worst. Means, Ketarn should deal with three.
Will master?. The guy it strong, and those two heads too to it in hands
cavorted. But hardly it till half a day waves weapon as Luchezarova of an ukhoreza.
The wolfhound remembered the adolescent, the pushed-away spear shank the old woman Kirenn.
Oh, not to appear to Ketarn with the twisted neck in that swamp, for
which there lived parents of his darling! And little girl, after
Luchezar nateshitsya with it...
And Elen Gluzdovna, going to itself, as if on purpose, all the time
stopped. That to wish quiet dreams to the velimorsky envoy
To Dungorm who was spending the night together with the group in tents. That once again
to thank a threshing barn and his wife for kind reception... Both here and there business not
it was limited to several bows, exercises in eloquence went again
- who whom will talk over. The knesinka procession on a lodging for the night dragged on before,
that the Wolfhound estimated about himself and fatefully solved: in total. Probably, even
the tireless youth stretched on houses to sleep. And, so he will not be in time
to see Ketarn with Ania to the marsh village... More likely, mentally hurried
it knesinka. It is rather you... But here at last they reached the yard, and
servants led by the nurse, having surrounded the monarchess, took away her to the house. Venn
without further delay called up to himself twins and strictly asked:
- I you well taught to protect madam? Likhoslav and Likhobor looked
one and from surprise answered another separately:
- Well...
They understood that he asked with an ulterior motive, and considerably quailed. Mentor
never before charged to them to protect the monarchess one. Young people
bodyguards looked forward when it happens, and here
it happened, and a little i
t became scared.
- I should leave, - the Wolfhound told. - You will cope?
Likhoslav firmly was responsible both for himself, and for the brother:
- Let's cope!
Also did not wait for other answer of veins. He silently nodded to twins and quickly
went to darkness.
The wolfhound never was in local places and did not know in the wood tracks,
it is expensive. He would even not know in what party the settlement is located
forest velkh if did not notice just in case, from where even in the afternoon
marsh inhabitants drove in Klyuchinka. To leave there,
it was required to cross anew all churchyard and to pass by the house of the elder. And
the first whom he saw among guys near the burning-down fires was
Ketarn.
The wolfhound hasty retreated into the shadow where he did not reach reddish
the reflection of coals, also looked narrowly. Ketarn heated hands, about something is cheerful
exchanging words with friends, and, apparently, was going to take part in
to new entertainment. Young men rested a shank of a spear against the earth and, keeping a hand,
jumped legs on a staff, and all others considered chorus, bending
fingers, - whether will long hold on.
Near Ketarn it was not visible to Ania, but the son's hair a threshing barn it is damp
shone from dew, and boots and trousers were wet to the knees. First at
Went away a wolfhound from hearts in any way saw off the girl and came back!
However then veins remembered as sent to marsh neighbors
prompt barefoot boys, and the alarm rose. Ketarn simply
could not manage to turn back there and back. Even if went right after
leaving of a knesinka also hurried there and back.
Means, did not bring the girl to a threshold and from hands on hands to parents as
it ought, did not transfer. Reached with it the most bigger the middle of a way and
on that said goodbye - further supposedly the direct road...
The wolfhound passed fires, having tried that from there he was not noticed.
Then jumped nobody not protected тын, in several jumps went down
from ostanets on a damp inundated meadow also ran woodward, praying
at once to all Gods only not to be late.
Mouse acted from his shoulder and a silent shadow floated ahead.
Here when were fully useful to it and night sight which
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