“I was entering into confidence with him,” answered Pan Andrei.
“What did he say?”
“He said that it was true concerning the Khan.”
“Praise be to God, who can change the hearts of pagans and make friends out of enemies.”
“He told me that Great Poland is moving.”
“Praise be to God!”
“That the quarter soldiers are more and more unwilling to remain with the Swedes; that in Podlyasye, the voevoda of Vityebsk, Sapyeha, has beaten the traitor Radzivill, and that he has all honest people with him. As all Lithuania stands by him, except Jmud, which De la Gardie has taken.”
“Praise be to God! Have you had no other talk with each other?”
“Yes; Kuklinovski tried afterward to persuade me to go over to the Swedes.”
“I expected that,” said the prior; “he is a bad man. And what did you answer?”