“What sort of devils?” asked Zagloba.
“I do not know them, I have never seen them,” answered Volodyovski.
Meanwhile the carriages passed, and began to turn in the yard so as to reach the main entrance of the castle, but the dragoons remained outside the gate. Volodyovski knew the officer leading them.
“Tokarzevich!” called he, “come to us, please.”
“With the forehead, worthy Colonel.”
“And what kind of hedgehogs are you bringing?”
“Those are Swedes.”
“Swedes!”
“Yes, and men of distinction. The portly one is Count Löwenhaupt, and the slender man is Benedikt Schitte, Baron von Duderhoff.”
“Duderhoff?” asked Zagloba.