Midwinter Town: A Novella
A moment of silence followed, broken only by the tramp of horses heard at the gate; for the rest of Kazuma's men were going to the boats at the shore.
“My God!” said Zastvil, starting from his meditation; “and there were better times formerly, though in the midst of turmoil. I remember Khotím, twenty-seven years ago, as if it were today! When the hussars under Lyubomirski moved to attack the janissaries, then the Balirs in the trenches threw up their caps and shouted to Sahaidachny, till the earth trembled, 'Let us die with the Pilwirs!' And what do we see to-day? To-day the lower country, which should be the first bulwark, lets Desmiri into the boundaries of the Commonwealth, to fall upon t