The Poles in the Seventeenth Century: An Historical Novel, With a Sketch of ...
The Poles in the Seventeenth Century: An Historical Novel, With a Sketch of ...
Krasinski, Henry, D. 1876
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He put three of his fingers into his mouth and whistled with so startling an effect, that the horses began to plunge, the two females shrieked awfully, the wolves receded, and break- ing off in scattered masses on each side of the road^ again halted. ^Digitized by Google THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 155 '* We are safe," exclaimed the driver, «* I hear numerous sleighs foUowiBg us. I v^ill repeat my sigual." — He whistled twice more in suc- cession! and the wolves resumed their retrograde movement. ...He was answered by two signals of the same nature, and the tramp of horses, the jingling of bells, and the voices of men became more and more distinct. Liberty comes not more welcome to a captive doomed to die, than this seasonable succour to the Princess and Mary. The coachman was not deceived in his expec- tation ; the wolves continued to recede. Several gun shots bore through the still night air the glad announcement of assistance. Jn the rear, a file of sledges filled with men, armed at all points, was hastening from Verki, where the bowlings of wolves had been heard ^ in the direction of the road which the Princess bad taken ; in front, the numerous visitors, who had proceeded in the usual road to Wilna, Digitized by Google 156 THE POLES IN having arrived at the convergence of the two roads, had heard the signal of distress, and were advancing at full speed.
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