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There will be Wawrzecki , I , a certain author , a very jolly chap , whose play we are to present , Majkowska , Topolski and you . You must come with us ! '' After lengthy persuasions and kisses , which Janina received indifferently , she finally agreed to accompany them . They waited for Wawrzecki and afterwards all went together to a pastry shop for tea , taking with them also Topolski , who there composed a circular addressed to the whole company requesting them to appear without fail at the morrow 's rehearsal , punctually at ten o'clock . For Cabinski all days on which there was a performance were important days , but only three days were extraordinary : Christmas Eve , Easter Day , and ... the name day of his wife which fell on the 19th of July , sacred to St. Vincent de Paul . On those three days the director and his wife would hold a reception on a grand scale . Cabinski the miser would vanish , and in his place would appear Cabinski the munificent , dispensing hospitality after the ancient custom of the Polish nobility , while certain deeply hidden hereditary cells of lavishness opened up in his ego .