“Have you heard anything about Kozytsky or Motonis?” he asked anxiously.
“Motonis is still in the senate. Secretary of State Kozytsky has already submitted a petition to be relieved of his post. Kozytsky is being hounded more than anyone else, because he headed and defended the recalcitrant ones...”
“Ah, strange fellows, who did they think their sermons were directed at?!” Skovoroda grieved out loud. “Those who are used to meat cannot be won over to grass. No cat has yet let a mouse out of its claws, and no sovereign has relinquished even a crumb of power.”
“They believed her words, her promises,” Mykhailo muttered.
“If everything which the mighty promised came true, the world would become a paradise,” Hryhoriy said. He surveyed his downcast friends and added sagaciously: “However, let
