«A leader, a leader; may the merciful Lord give a leader!» said Stankyevich, raising his eyes toward heaven.
«Do not men say that the voevoda of Vityebsk is a wonderfully honest man?» asked Pan Stanislav.
«They do,» replied Mirski; «but he has not the baton of grand or full hetman, and before the king clothes him with the office of hetman, he can act only on his own account. He will not go to the Swedes, or anywhere else; that is certain.»
«Pan Gosyevski, full hetman, is a captive in Kyedani.»
«Yes, for he is an honest man,» said Oskyerko. «When news of that came to me, I was distressed, and had an immediate foreboding of evil.»
Pan Michael fell to thinking, and said after a while: «I was in Warsaw once, and went to the king›s palace. Our gracious lord, since he loves soldiers and had
