“But we are still alive,” said Volodyovski.
“And God is in heaven,” added Skshetuski.
A moment of silence followed; then Vershul said,--
“We shall perish totally, unless God performs a miracle and ceases to chastise us for our sins and shows us unmerited mercy. At times I do not believe myself what I saw with my own eyes, and it seems to me that a nightmare was choking me in my sleep.”
“Tell further,” said Zagloba; “you came to Pilavtsi, and then what?”
“We stopped. What the commanders counselled I know not. At the last judgment they will answer for that; if they had struck Hmelnitski at once he would have been shattered and swept away, as God is in heaven, in spite of disorder, insubordination, tumult, and want of a leader. On their side was panic among the rabble; they were already
