as, from her reclining position, looking carelessly on || try, to make a favourable impression; but crime, which the opposite wall, she said, in her habitual hauteur, 66 Come, young man,"resumed the Countess, her eyes wandering from the wall to the window, "no trifling. If you have any knowledge of the Count's fate, tell quickly what you do know, for your own sake.” Still Pavel spoke not; nor did the Countess turn her eyes towards him. "I will force her to look at me," thought Pavel; "her eyes shall be contaminated by the consciousness of my individual existence." After a slight pause, the Countess said "I might resort to severity, but I prefer trying mild means first. Here is money." She threw a few silver coins on the floor. "If your intelligence be worth more, you shall have it." "I am no beggar," said Pavel, coldly; "and I know nothing." || The Countess now turned full upon him, to see the man who could refuse her money. "I perceive what || I have heard of your temper is true," said she. "Ring that bell." Both parties were silent until the servant entered. "Take this man below," she said; "and look to it that he do not leave the house until you have the Count's further orders." A short time subsequently, Casimir re-entering, the Countess, in a few brief words, informed him of what had passed between herself and Pavel. "We must have him before the justice," said the young Count, "and get this obstinacy drubbed out of him; he is the most incorrigible man on the whole estate." The General, coming in at that moment, overheard these words, and demanded an explanation. "Again, Jakubska!" he exclaimed. "That unfortunate young man is never out of trouble!" A domestic presented a paper to the Count, whose cheek flushed, and whose brow became dark, as he cast his eyes over the few hasty lines, scrawled under the impulse of violent passion. They ran thus: "I know my crime is, that I am not humble enough, where humility is the only road to favour. Let not that weigh against me. Let mercy inspire you! Permit me to leave the estatenay, furnish me with the means of doing so. You owe me a protection you have never extended to me. You have made me wretched; and, because I looked my wretchedness, I have been made a butt to persecution. That was not enough; your son struck me!-and I understand the Countess means to have me fustigated! This I cannot, and will not, forgive! For your own sake, as well as mine, I entreat you to let me go. But I cannot go unassisted, to be everywhere beaten and imprisoned as a vagabond! This much, under our peculiar circumstances, I have a right to demand; and this I do now demand for the last time. I await your answer." Had the unfortunate young man sincerely wished for the boon he asked, it is probable that he would have couched his demand in another tone-in a tone more calculated, according to the manners of his coun had been hovering for years around his heart, had now a firm gripe of him. He felt Satan busy within his breast, and made one last desperate effort to save the Count and himself; but without any hope, and, certainly, at that moment, without any sincere desire of success. "Wretched boy!" exclaimed the General, pacing up and down the apartment, in great agitation; "wretched boy!" The Count saw nought in this letter beyond the insolence of a boor who knows he has his master's secret in his own keeping. "He dares to threaten me! However, this spirit might extend among the serfs; it must be checked in the bud. Had he been good and resigned, I might But it does not matter. These are not times, with the French propaganda in our villages, to overlook such things. This letter is a serious grievance." And the General left the room. The infliction of corporal chastisement on Pavel he did not deem sufficient; the additional punishment of close confinement seemed to him necessary, in order to bring the young man to a sense of his grave offence; and he gave orders accordingly. That the matter weighed on his mind, however, was clear, from the earnestness with which he defended his principles, some hours later, at dinner. A young Frenchman, just arrived from Paris with letters from the Committee of Polish Emigrants, dined that day with the family; and, after making assiduous inquiries into the state of Galicia, passed judgment with the usual French rapidity. "You are far too feudal here," he said. Do you think so?" said the Countess, with an ineffable sneer; since, as the Frenchman bore no title, for the Countess Sophie, he was "not born;" and his opinions had such an utter want of all value in her eyes, that she was surprised at his giving himself the trouble to emit them. Not so the General. "We and our people," he replied, gravely, "are content with this state of things, to which centuries have inured all parties." "Are you quite certain that they have inured your peasantry?" "Our peasantry, sir, like most people, are happiest when submitted to wise restrictions. Come, there has been a great deal said of our barbarities hereabouts by the liberty-mongers of other lands; they traduce us in a laughable manner. One would imagine, when listening to their representations, that, from the moment we get up till the time we go to bed, we occupy ourselves in devising plans for the annoyance of our serfs, or in ordering and witnessing corporal punishment." "But," argued the Frenchman, "you cannot deny that corporal punishment is sometimes inflicted. I have myself seen a gipsy boy cruelly maltreated, in the presence of one of the lords, hereabouts; and, by his orders, the coachman apply his whip to the naked shoulders of a gipsy girl, who came begging on the road." "Granted," said the Count. "But you do not find your. self here in the midst of the civilization and refinement of your western capital. We are surrounded by semibarbarians, and must treat them as such. These very gipsies you speak of, despite all the efforts made to redeem them, and, though a large number have consented to settle in villages, and even profess the forms of Christianity, have, for the most part, remained as unreclaimed The right of private justice, which, until very re cently, existed in the greater part of Germany, and those countries subject to its sway, and which was eers as ever. They know no law, human or divine. They are!! the Parias of our provinces, who, like vultures, feed on carrion. You fancy I speak figuratively, but it is literally true; they are no less disgusting in their ha-tainly very hard upon the peasantry-for the lord thus bits than abandoned in their characters. Our only check upon their lawlessness is by inspiring them with a wholesome terror." "But your own people-you allow them to remain in brutalising ignorance." | became accuser and judge at the same time-they were not unwilling to resign; for it was a right as onerous to the noble as to the serf. A man purchasing an estate of feudal tenure could not dispense with it. He was obliged, at his own cost, to provide subaltern "Has education," said the Count, "improved people officers of the law, rural police, and so forth; govern in other lands-I mean, made them happier? It has ments, heretofore, having been but too glad to get rid only rendered abortive the control of governments, of the enormous outlay which the maintenance of these which is necessary and wholesome. I have been in servants of the state throughout so vast a country would German villages that are relieved, in part, from feudal have imposed. The right, too, of naming authorities tenure, where the people are what you call educated, in their villages and townlets, being a mere matter of and belong to the State. I cannot say I found them so pomp and circumstance, they would probably have given mild, or their morals and conduct looked after as they up without much opposition; but their rights of fishing would have been under the eye of a residing nobleman.and hunting were part and parcel of the German noIn oue village, a man beat his wife under circumstances bility, the fairest fruit of their parchments, and, if not of aggravated cruelty. Had this occurred in one of my the most profitable, certainly the highest-prized of their villages, I would have had the fellow severely punished.privileges. And these were precisely what weighed I witnessed, at other times, acts of cruelty to animals most on the lower class; for they were the only relies that pass belief; and yet the authorities took no notice of more barbarous times that placed the life of the whatever. I should have had the perpetrators taught boor at the mercy of the lord. Any poacher, or max humanity in a lesson they would not easily have for-supposed to be poaching, found in the forest, might be gotten. Believe me, a certain degree of restraint is to the advantage of the people themselves." The Count's colour rose as the stranger thus unconsciously touched upon his own long absence from his estate. He answered, evasively-"One must be born in a country, to enter fully into the spirit of its manners and institutions." “And I hold,” said the Frenchman, laughing, "that none but foreigners can judge sanely of what touches too nearly a nation's interests." shot by the noble or his gamekeeper. Until the me morable year 1848, perhaps not one season passed "Truc," said the Frenchman, "if you spent your without many lives being lost in this manner; certainly time improving the morality of your people, your feudal there is scarcely an estate, from north to south, inwhich system would be a useful institution; but when this an event of this nature has not taken place within the power devolves, as it does in many cases, for years upon last ten years. This law of summary justice, joined stewards, the masters being far away, it becomes per- to that which compels the peasant to assist in tim nicious. All these rights were given at a time when,, battues, has caused more bitter blood between the lord people lived wholly on their estates. I doubt not that and the serf, than, perhaps, any other. It is singular, in some instances this unrestrained power is wielded that not even the rents in kind-nor the right of gazwith lenity; but the system, as a system, is bad." ing for the lord's cattle, to whatever amount, upon their || vassals' meadows-nor that of laying these same mea 'dows under water at all times and seasons, for the pur pose of damming the brooks and rivulets for fishing→→ not all these grievances, small and great, which the revolution of 1793 put an end to in France, and which subsisted more or less throughout Germany and its dependencies until 1818, weighed so heavily upon the peasantry as these compulsory laws of the chase. The General did not let the subject fall, but at- It is in vain for the nobles to contend, as they used tacked it again and again with great persistence. Per-to do, that this and other feudal exactions were the haps it was expecting too much of human disinterest-custom of the land. It is a custom to which the boors edness to suppose that the nobles would have tacitly never paticutly submitted, which caused the peasants' consented to the abolition of these feudal rights, espe- war in 1500, and certainly will not leave Germany quiet cially of the robot, which diminishes their fortunes by at until the last trace of feudality has ceased to exist. least one good half, as any one will see who takes the Events were now drawing to a head. The Count trouble to compute the value of an estate having no Soboski having fled to Lemberg, in order to place outlay for labour, teams, &c.—whose profits are equal || himself beyond the reach of suspicion or intrigue, to the highest state of cultivation, and whose tillage, from thence penned a last admonitory letter to the if paid for, would absorb a large yearly revenue--and General. compare it with the value of one of equal size, entailing the necessary ontlay for cattle and husbandry; and in so doing he will easily understand why the nobles of the Austrian states clung so steadfastly to this feudal prerogative." *The several constituent assemblies of Germany, especially that of Frankfort, have abolished all these feudal rights and privileges; and it does not seem very likely, disputed as their authority may be in other respects, that it will ever be possible to reestablish them. But, to enable the reader to form some notion of the differcuce the cancelling of there rights makes in the worth of landed property, it may suffice to instance the case of a lady "Withdraw before it is too late," so ran the epistle, "I entreat-I conjure you, my noble friend. I see you surrounded with dangers, some of which you do not even suspect. Not but I know that fear has no power over you; but to throw away life uselessly, is unpardonable in a man like you, whose existence is, in so many ways, useful to his country. Even should known to the writer, who, on an estate of moderate size mad va'ne. had, immediately after the change effected in March, 145, 10 burse no less than £500, merely to procure the necessary cattle to continue the labour that had yet to be done. your party succeed in restoring Poland to itself, it would [] now of the disgrace the young man had fallen into at be only to establish, in spite of yourselves, a Polish the castle, although the demand was in rule, he obstirepublic; not an anarchy of nobles, such as you dream nately refused. Accordingly, when Pavel re-entered of the Poland of 1700, with its perpetual feuds, de- his house, it was to find it in a far worse condition solating elections, and unbounded aristocratic power. than that in which he had left it. Old Jakubska, too, But, no; I do you wrong, generous Stanoiki; your profiting by his absence to sell every vendible article noble mind contemplates but one thing-the liberation she possessed, and all the provisions her son had laid by of your country. You see nothing beyond that bare for the winter, and having spent every farthing she fact, and therein do you err. could lay her hands upon in drink, now lay on a bed of sickness, from which it did not seem likely that she would rise again, the baneful habit having told at last on her enfeebled constitution. The Count, since the receipt of Pavel's last letter, had withdrawn the pension, leaving her in a state of utter destitution; but Pavel hailed the struggles of want with a feeling approximating to pleasure, for it permitted him to indulge still more unrestrainedly in the dark hatred that de voured him. Greatly was the old woman relieved when the announcement of this fact elicited no remark; and, clasping her hands, and crossing herself, she gave utterance to the joy she felt at sight of her son once .. The General scarce gave himself the trouble to peruse this friendly scroll, but threw it by disdainfully; the salutary advice was forgotten, and the monitor despised. Stanoiki was altogether engrossed with one idea, and he would see it in but one light. He was about to stake his all-honour-freedom-fortune-life-upon a die. All minor considerations, every other care, faded away before that one thought-to restore Poland, or perish in the attempt. This was the heroic resolve that filled his breast, which he was proud to inculcate in his son; and never was patriotism mixed with less alloy. Alas, the blindness that will not permit us to see things through any medium but our own narrow views! more. "At least," she exclaimed, "I shall not die like a dog, without kin or kith by my side, to see me off on the long journey." Are you sure I shall mourn you?" said the young man, sternly. The old woman groaned aloud. "No, no!" she said, "that you will not; and yet I meant it all so well." The rebellion now began to assume a formidable character; it flung away the mask, and advanced boldly || to the work. The blow did not fall unexpectedly upon Austria. Still, it was not to be parried easily; and one decided advantage on the side of the Poles, and the partial ignition would spread rapidly into a general and unquenchable conflagration. But to obtain that advantage, the peasantry must be brought to join heart and hand with the nobles; a climax that seemed not easy But loneliness has something so dreadful, especially of attainment. The clergy and Polish emissaries had when stretched on the bed of death, that she was moved heaven and earth to rouse the villagers; whose grateful for seeing his gloomy face overshadowing her obstinacy or indifference presented inert, though, in threshold-glad to hear his unkind voice. Besides, he most instances, immovable obstacles. But nowhere was seldom alone. He had now become an important was this felt more than on the estate of Stanoiki. In- man in his village, was looked up to by the peasants, sensibly, indeed, an uncomfortable feeling had crept || and sought after with an eagerness which showed what between the inhabitants of the castle and those of the reliance they placed upon his talents and energy. He villages. The Count had held up golden promises, was their spokesman on all occasions; and his evenand had recourse to persuasion, to induce the latter to ings were invariably devoted to the public-house. The embrace the cause; but in vain. They alleged their duty | neighbours, who had always fled old Jakubska's dirty to the Emperor he was a kind master, they said; they cottage and despised self-who, like Pavel, had consicould not think of turning against him. If the enter- dered her at one time nothing better than a witch, and prise failed, they did not know what punishment might who had then disliked her son for his mopish habitscome upon them. Threats were as vain as promises now flocked around her bed of an evening, to keep her and persuasions. Against the former they pleaded the company during his absence, and to sing his praise. protection afforded them by the law of the empire; and So unstable is the current of human opinion, now runas to the promises, they shook their heads, with looks ning joyously in the direction whence it receded but a that said, as plainly as looks could say, "We know their short time before. worth." Had this passive resistance been confined to the General's estate, it would have been an omen of less significance; but the same thing occurred on all the neighbouring domains, and on those of other provinces; nay, even the nobility of the different circles of Gallicia were not all fired with equal zeal—all were, indeed, secretly attached to the cause, but many had not the courage openly to avow it. One afternoon, the peasantry of Stanoiki were reunited in greater numbers than on any former occasion, in and around a large barn, belonging to one of the more opulent of the villagers. Indeed, not only all the available men of that part, but the leading tenants of the estate generally were there. Many, too, had come from a distance; delegates, it would seem, from other domains, eager to show their sympathy with the popular cause. Pavel was, as usual, the spokesman; and though what he said was but simple, it suited the comprehension of his auditors. "The thing for us to consider," he said, "is this. Such was the state of things when Pavel, boiling with indignation at the treatment he had received, was set at liberty. He had suffered more during his confinement than the General would have permitted, had he been consulted; but he was far too much pre-occu-We must take a decided part on one side or the other, pied to attend to such matters. February had set in cold and foggy. Duski had been repeatedly urged by some of the villagers to put Jakubska's cottage in a state to face the severity of the season; but, secure VOL. XVI.-NO. CXC, This neutrality cannot last. We all know that we have nothing good to expect from our masters-experience of the past has sufficiently shown that; whereas the Emperor has no laws but such as have conduced, more 3 D or less, to the bettering of our lot. Therefore, we resolve to remain faithful to the Emperor. Do we not?" Why, we prove it daily," said one of the peasants. "You do nothing against him," resumed Pavel, "and he cannot punish you. Very well. But there the matter ends, you have no profit; whereas, if you stood by him, you would merit reward, and, doubtless, obtain it. The moment our lords are rebels, they are without the pale of the law-they cease to be our masters; for, when the Emperor catches them, don't you see, what will he do?-Hang them by the dozen, like berries, on the trees, and confiscate their lands! And who'll do robot then? If we be true and staunch men, we'll do it no longer. The Emperor, to reward our fidelity, will remove it altogether!" "But if we side with our masters," said a peasant, "they say they'll give it up also." "And you believe them, Zdenko? But don't you see the thing is a stupidity on the face of it? The Emperor will give it up, because he has never profited by it. It is as if Michel was giving away Joseph's house-well, he does it without caring; but it is another question if Joseph could make up his mind to part with it. We don't till the Emperor's lands, nor lend him our cattle; be you sure that makes a great difference. But now, if we go on with the robot as usual, we are actually traitors, and shall be treated as such; because, if we serve the enemies of the Emperor, we must expect to share their punishment. Just in this way, if Joseph hates Michel, and we side with Michel, Joseph will give us a good drubbing, if he can-don't you see? It's quite clear. But if we refuse the robot, stand out against our lords, and side with the Emperor, and are his friends, he then says, 'My dear children, you shall not have the robot any more; provided you pay my taxes, it's all right and smooth.' Just as you say to the friend who helps you to thrash the man you have quarrelled with, Come to the public-house, and I'll give you a dram of brandy!' Therefore, I say, my friends, no more robot; for, if our lords be powerful, let us remember we are backed by one who is yet more powerful. I say, again, down with the robot!—he is a dog who yields it! Down with our masters!-it were well for the land if the seed were lost!" that they would henceforth recognise no other authority but that of their lord the Emperor, who knew how to punish traitors, the peasants, one and all, refused to obey. Duski, for a moment stunned by this unexpected announcement, soon rallied; and stormed and threatened in his usual abusive and violent manner. But the serfs no longer listened with the downcast eyes and heaving breasts of men whose resentment is kept down by fear, but met his menacing looks with looks as stern; and Duski, alone, and unarmed, began to cast about him anxious glances for some means of retreat. No issue was free, however. Men, women, and children hemmed him in; and the scythes, pitchforks, and flails in the hands of the former, showed him that they were not without hostile intentions. His conscience, roused in this hour of danger, whispered how little he had done to merit their good-willhow much he had done to excite their hatred; and, silent and abashed, he stood trembling in the midst of them, revolving in his craven mind in what manner to soften their present exasperation. Suddenly, a bright thought occurred to him; and, raising his head with an air of animation, he said, "Well, my friends, you ought to tell this to your lord, not to me. Shall I go and tell him? He cannot now bring troops from Lemberg, to compel you, since it is his turn to dread them." "We don't want you. We mean to tell him ourselves!" shouted one of the men. "That bait won't take, master steward." "To the castle! to the castle!" vociferated the peasants, catching at the idea suggested by their companion. And the movement in the crowd, consequent upon the momentary excitement, enabled Duski to turn his horse's head, and make off with himself at full speed; nor did he draw rein until he had almost cleared the space betwixt the village and the chateau. But, as he was about to turn from the bank of the river, up a small road leading to the latter, a troop of young men, with Casimir at their head, came galloping towards him, in such excitement that they evidently were not conscious of his presence till they were close upon him. The tremendous applause which this speech eli "You here, Duski?" said Casimir, drawing up cited, proved that it had found its way to the under- the moment he saw the steward." You should be standing and feelings of the listeners. The stamp-down at the mine, or in the village, doing your best to arm the people and get them ready.” "Arm-arm the people!" faltered Duski. “Against whom?" ing of feet and the clapping of hands were drowned in their loud vociferations; and the affrighted wolves scampered over the plain as they heard in the distance the yells of their foe-tribe more dreadful than their own. That cry reached, too, the ears of Duski, who was at that moment entering the village, to collect men and horses for the following morning, for the purpose of breaking the ice on a small pond not far off, and transporting it to the castle cellars; and, judging by the uproar that there must be many gathered together, he made in the direction whence the sound proceeded, wondering in his heart what could have given rise to so exuberant an expression of joy. He had not proceeded many paces, when he encountered a party of stragglers from the barn; and, stopping, he ordered them upon that service. But, with the formal declaration that they considered the robot at an end, now and for ever, and 46 Against whom! why, against the German foe, of course-against the oppressor! Pshaw! You are but an old fool, after all. We must look to this matter ourselves, gentlemen. Let us lose no time prating with this silly old man. On!-on! We must get into the field, cost what it may!" And, giving the spur to his willing brute, he resumed his headlong course over the plain. Duski remained rooted to the spot. His first intention had been to warn the General of the dis ordered state of the village; but, as he looked after the gallant little band, now fast receding from view, a new current was given to his thoughts. "Ha! I am an old fool, an owl, a silly old man! So I am, in truth, to care about you or your lady mother. After all, matters begin to look very ugly hereabouts. At best, the Emperor confiscates the|| house, which had raised the banner of Poland. His estates; and then, Duski, what will become of you, in the midst of a mob that hates you? You had better, I think, make off with yourself and family as soon as may be; and as to the Count, it's no concern of yours-they are no friends of yours, that I know of.' father, he said, had sent him, his only son, into the struggle. Let them follow the example of their lord; and let the fathers bring their grey hair, and their youngest-born their fair locks, into the field for their country! True patriot was he alone who would shed his heart's best blood on the altar of his country. Up against Austria! Let them clip the Eagle's talons that had torn them asunder, and blunt his beak that was red with the gore of their fathers! Their brothers in Posen had risen. breaking forth; and Poland, like a mighty stream, divided for a time by intervening obstacles, would again re-unite in one broad sheet. Let them follow him now, as they stood there-with no other arms— no more preparation; and he would lead them on at once to victory and honour. "Come!" he concluded, "my faithful friends, follow your lord and leader." The Countess, as usual, had contrived to wound mortally the steward's wife and daughters-having sneered at their pretensions to accomplishments, bought very dear by them at a fashionable boardingschool in a provincial town, and prized accordingly-In Cracow-in Warsaw-they were on the eve of and having cast on them those peculiar glances of which she had the secret, and which made her as many enemies as there were persons on whom they fell. Duski remembered her manner, and that of her sou; and it overbalanced, in his estimation, all the real grounds for gratitude which should have warmed his heart in the interest of those whose bread he had eaten for years-through inordinate profits upon whose revenues he had been able to enjoy so many advantages. Not the spotless life of the Countess her piety, patriotism, maternal affection -nothing pleaded in favour of the proud woman; and Duski left her to her fate, retracing his way homeward with all speed, to prepare for immediate flight. Meanwhile, the cavalcade, with Casimir at its head, pursued their way towards the village. They had nearly reached it, when, crossing a field, and coming directly towards them, they observed a large body of men, who, from the weapons they bore-for the sun played upon the broad blades of the scythes were evidently bent on some important work. Casimir was the first to perceive them. The moment he did so, he exclaimed "Here they are; already on the march! We'll head them, and proceed at once to ***. There is nothing like striking the iron whilst it is hot. The' town is small-utterly unprepared-and, in our hands, might be turned to some advantage. In war, as in everything else, il n'y a que le premier pas qui conte. Seize but upon two such towns-report will make them twenty; and the rest will surrender at discretion. Now for it!-To the work; and be eloquent!" Casimir turned his horse's head; but not a foot stirred-not even one eye responded to his impassioned address. "Come, my men-march!" he cried, in a voice tremulous with eagerness. "Why do you stand there, like so many blocks?" "Long life to the Emperor!" shouted the vassals, with one voice, in stentorian accents. Long life to the Austrian Eagle! It is not his talons that have scraped up our sowings, and destroyed our saplings-not his bill that has devoured us. We know our foes from our friends.—No robot now, or ever!-No robot!-No more oppression!--The Emperor, and no robot!-Long live the Emperor! " "And Poland"-exclaimed Casimir, with impetuosity-"ye false knaves and cowards !—your mother country-——————— ” "Has given us no father," said Pavel, standing forth; "nothing but masters. We and our fathers have toiled for you centuries. We have borne your blows; but we will not fight, be fined, imprisoned, hung, for you!-Say I not well, my men ?" Loud and prolonged acclamations succeeded these words. "Long live the Emperor!-No robot!-We'll stand to that with our lives!" Recreants" shouted a youth, displaying a red and white standard, which he had hitherto kept furled ;." look at this glorious banner, the colours of Poland-the colours that floated over Ostrolenko, and many a bloody field besides-the colours for which hosciusko bled !" But the peasants remained inflexible. "No robot, and the Emperor," was their answer to every appeal. The next instant, the two bands met, and halted. It was a strange contrast: that gallant little band, with their Polish caps of crimson and silver, jauntily set on their perfumed locks-their elegant forins and trim mustaches-their mettled steeds, English riding whips in the well-gloved hand-their silver-mounted pistols, in holsters lined with crimson cloth; and that close, compact body of men, wrapped in sheepskins, that seemed to increase the clumsy, heavy appearance of the wearers-their weapons attributes of Ceres rather than Mars, all dreadful as they are in such hands-their habitually listless, melancholy look exchanged for one of savage brutality, which disfigured the mouth with harsh lines, and lighted the eyes with malignant fires. Involuntarily the mind of the beholder reverted to the wild ani-grow up like cattle, that we might be driven like mal when roused. Their hair seemed to bristle, their them? We know as well as you do, and have not eyes to glare, as they shook themselves ready for forgotten it in our hearts. We know what we are combat. to expect if you again become masters of the counCasimir addressed them with a short but energetic || try. I remember the day-I was young thenappeal to their patriotism, and their zeal for his when we were not merely serfs; we were slaves. "Save Poland," said Casimir, "and we'll see about satisfying your desires." "Will you, though?" said an aged man, placing himself before Pavel, who was again about to speak. "Who would not grant us schools? Who let us |