«With what can we defend ourselves? We have no cannon, nothing but saluting pieces good to fire off in time of a feast.»
«At Zbaraj Hmelnitski had seventy cannon, and Prince Yeremi only a few eight-pounders and mortars.»
«But he had an army, not militia,--his own squadrons famed in the world, not country nobles fresh from sheep-shearing.»
«Send for Pan Skorashevski,» said the castellan of Poznan. «Make him commander of the camp. He is at peace with the nobles, and will be able to keep them in order.»
«Send for Skorashevski. Why should he be in Drahim or Chaplinko?» repeated Yendrei Grudzinski, the voevoda of Kalisk.
«Yes, that is the best counsel!» cried other voices.
A courier was despatched for Skorashevski. No other decisions were taken at the council; but they talked much, and co
