After that it became very dangerous to pass the house, for the Waiwode's domestics were numerous.

He met her once again at church.

She saw him, and smiled pleasantly, as at an old acquaintance.

He saw her once more, by chance; but shortly afterwards the Waiwode departed, and, instead of the beautiful black-eyed Pole, some fat face or other gazed from the window.
This was what Andrii was thinking about, as he hung his head and kept his eyes on his horse's mane.
In the meantime the steppe had long since received them all into its green embrace; and the high grass, closing round, concealed them, till only their black Cossack caps appeared above it.
"Eh, eh, why are you so quiet, lads ?" said Bulba at length, waking from his own reverie.

"You're like monks.