Take me to him!" exclaimed Taras, with decision, and with all his firmness of mind restored.

He agreed to Yankel's proposition that he should disguise himself as a foreign count, just arrived from Germany, for which purpose the prudent Jew had already provided a costume.

It was already night.

The master of the house, the red-haired Jew with freckles, pulled out a mattress covered with some kind of rug, and spread it on a bench for Bulba.

Yankel lay upon the floor on a similar mattress.