«Oh, no fear of that!» said Kovalski; «there are six brothers of us.»
«And all Kohs?»
«Does Uncle know that if not the first, then the second, has to be Roh?--for Roh is our special patron.»
«Let us drink again.»
«Very well.»
Zagloba raised the bottle; he did not drink all, however, but gave it to the officer and said, «To the bottom, to the bottom! It is a pity that I cannot see you,» continued he. «The night is so dark that you might hit a man in the face, you would not know your own fingers by sight. But hear me, Roh, where was that army going from Kyedani when we drove out?»
«Against the insurgents.»
«The Most High God knows who is insurgent,--you or they.»
«I an insurgent? How could that be? I do what my hetman commands.»
«But the hetman does not do what the king commands, fo
