Pan Tadeusz: Book One the Manor Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) (Short Story‪)‬

Argument: The young master's return. A first encounter in a little room, a second at table. The Judge's sober discourse on courtesy. The Chamberlain's political reflections on fashion. Beginning of the dispute over Bobtail and Falcon. The Chief Steward's lament. The last Sergeant at Arms. A glance at the political state of affairs in Lithuania and Europe of the time. Lithuania! My homeland! You are like health. Only those who forfeit you can fitly judge your price. Now that I grieve your loss, I see and show your beauty forth in all its splendor.