Full of this idea she walked up the marble staircase , and entered the little room where her sister-in-law sat , making clothes for her children . The bride seemed full of interest in the houses , and asked a great many questions about them , so that her new relations liked her much better than they expected , and hoped they might be good friends . However , as soon as she reached home , she went straight to her husband , and told him that he must get back those houses from his brother , as they would exactly suit her , and she could easily make them into a palace as fine as the king 's . But her husband only told her that she might buy houses in some other part of the town , for she could not have those , as he had long since made a gift of them to his brother , who had lived there for many years past . At this answer the wife grew very angry . She began to cry , and made such a noise that all the neighbours heard her and put their heads out of the windows , to see what was the matter . ` It was absurd , ' she sobbed out , ` quite unjust . Indeed , if you came to think of it , the gift was worth nothing , as when her husband made it he was a bachelor , and since then he had been married , and she had never given her consent to any such thing . ' And so she lamented all day and all night , till the poor man was nearly worried to death ; and at last he did what she wished , and summoned his brother in a court of law to give up the houses which , he said , had only been lent to him . But when the evidence on both sides had been heard , the judge decided in favour of the poor man , which made the rich lady more furious than ever , and she determined not to rest until she had gained the day . If one judge would not give her the houses another should , and so time after time the case was tried over again , till at last it came before the highest judge of all , in the city of Evora . Her husband was heartily tired and ashamed of the whole affair , but his weakness in not putting a stop to it in the beginning had got him into this difficulty , and now he was forced to go on . On the same day the two brothers set out on their journey to the city , the rich one on horseback , with plenty of food in his knapsack , the poor one on foot with nothing but a piece of bread and four onions to eat on the way . The road was hilly and neither could go very fast , and when night fell , they were both glad to see some lights in a window a little distance in front of them . The lights turned out to have been placed there by a farmer , who had planned to have a particularly good supper as it was his wife 's birthday , and bade the rich man enter and sit down , while he himself took the horse to the stable . The poor man asked timidly if he might spend the night in a corner , adding that he had brought his own supper with him . Another time permission might have been refused him , for the farmer was no lover of humble folk , but now he gave the elder brother leave to come in , pointing out a wooden chair where he could sit . Supper was soon served , and very glad the younger brother was to eat it , for his long ride had made him very hungry . The farmer 's wife , however , would touch nothing , and at last declared that the only supper she wanted was one of the onions the poor man was cooking at the fire . Of course he gave it to her , though he would gladly have eaten it himself , as three onions are not much at the end of a long day 's walk , and soon after they all went to sleep , the poor man making himself as comfortable as he could in his corner .
A few hours later the farmer was aroused by the cries and groans XXXXX his wife .
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