
TER I.
A more unequally matched couple than the cartwright Molnár and his wife can seldom be seen.
When, on Sunday, the pair went to church through the main street of Kisfalu, an insignificant
village in the Pesth county, every one looked after them, though every child, nay, every cur in the
hamlet, knew them and, during the five years since their marriage, might have become
accustomed to the spectacle....