However, strange things have happened already in this war, and there is no saying how fortune may go.

Goodbye, and a pleasant journey." A Russian officer took his place by the side of the Swede, and an escort of twenty troopers rode behind them, as they trotted out through the gate of the convent.
"It was very kind of the king to send for me," Charlie said to the Swede, "and I am really sorry that you should have had so long a ride on my account, Captain Pradovich." "As to that, it is a trifle," the officer said.

"If I had not been riding here, I should be riding with the king elsewhere, so that I am none the worse.

But, in truth, I am glad I came, for yesterday evening I saw the czar himself.

I conversed with him for some time.
He expressed himself very courteously with respect to the king, and to our army, against whom he seems to bear no sort of malice for the defeat we inflicted on him at Narva.