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Meanwhile the Podhajskis and the Isajewiczes, the Birbaszes,

Wilbiks, Biergels, and Kotwiczes, seeing the Dobrzynskis under so

severe constraint, began slowly to cool down from their former

wrath; for the Polish gentry, though beyond measure quarrelsome

and eager for fighting, are nevertheless not vindictive. So they

ran to old Maciej for counsel. He stationed the whole crowd about

the waggons and told them to wait.

The Bernardine entered the room. They hardly recognised him,

though he had not changed his clothes-his bearing was so

different. He was ordinarily gloomy and thoughtful, but now he

held his head high, and with a radiant mien, like a jolly monk,

he laughed long before he began to talk:-