All desire to have the exclusive honour of delivering their country, and prefer to lose it rather than owe their success to a rival.
Sapieha, the principal leader, was massacred by his nobles.

Pulauwski and Micksenski were delivered up, wounded, to the Russians; Zaremba betrayed his country; Oginski, the last of these great patriots, roused Lithuania at the moment when Lesser Poland had laid down its arms.
Abandoned and fugitive, he escaped to Dantzig, and wandered for thirty years over Europe and America, carrying in his heart the memory of his country.

The lovely Countess of Mnizeck languished and died of grief with Poland.

Dumouriez wept for this heroine, adored in a country wherein he said the women are more men than the men.

He brake his sword, despairing for ever of this aristocracy without a people, bestowing on it, as he quitted it, the name of _Asiatic Nation of Europe_.
VI.
He returned to Paris.