«But come down out of those clouds!» cried Kmita.
With that the cavaliers burst into one enormous laugh; but all at once remembering the command of Kmita, they seized their mustaches with their hands.
Kokosinski was confused in the highest degree. He grew purple, and said, «Do the greeting yourselves, pagans, since you confuse me.»
Panna Aleksandra took again, with the tips of her fingers, her skirt. «I could not follow you gentlemen in eloquence,» said she, «but I know that I am unworthy of those homages which you give me in the name of all Orsha.»
And again she made a courtesy with exceeding dignity, and it was somehow out of place for the Orsha roisterers in the presence of that courtly maiden. They strove to exhibit themselves as men of politeness, but it did not become them. There
