I could not leave them a better master, or him a more pleasant keepsake.
My third good friend is my steward, Peter Varga." "Oh, sir!" the other old man would have murmured; but his tongue refused to move.
"To him I leave my old servant Paul, and old Vidra the jester, and the Lapayi property.

May he live there happily with my two faithful servants.
"All my agents now employed upon the estate are to go on receiving their usual salaries, and they are not to lose their pay if they have to be discharged from old age or infirmity.

The general management of my estate I leave to the wise discretion of Count Rudolf Szentirmay.
"And now, committing my soul to God and my body to the earth, I await with resignation my dissolution, and, putting my whole trust in God, I look forward to the hour when I shall turn to dust." These last words were also written down.

The lawyer then read the will; and then, first Karpathy and then all the witnesses present subscribed and sealed it.

And the same night a fair copy of it was made and sent to Rudolf, as the chief magistrate of the county.
Then Karpathy bade the priest send in the sexton.
He entered accordingly, and a golden goblet with wine in it and a golden patten with a thin slice of bread on it were placed on a little round ebony table.