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One old hag actually made me a declaration of love, which, unfortunately, I could not respond to in the same spirit. Night crept across the wide sea, and a golden sunset was followed by a long afterglow. Far away on the softly shining silver we saw a sail, small as a fly, that drifted slowly seaward and was swallowed up by the darkness, from which the stars emerged one by one.
It was then he saw the hag lying beside him, and he gave a great screech and jumped out of the bed. "Aren't you the Hag of the Mill?" said he. "I am indeed," she replied, "and I love you dearly." "I wish I didn't see you," said Branduv. That was the end of the story, and when he had told it Mongan began to laugh uproariously and called for more wine.
Then he suddenly threw the Hag over the fence and, if possible, upon the foreman's sickle. On that he took to his heels and made off as fast as he could run, and he was a lucky man if he escaped without being caught or cut by the flying sickles which the infuriated reapers hurled after him. In other cases the Hag was brought home to the farmhouse by one of the reapers.
"On the third night from this, will I stand with thee by the altar of Thor, and unriddle the rede of my masters, unknown and unguessed, whom thou hadst duteously served. And ere the sun rise, the greatest mystery earth knows shall be bare to thy soul!" As the witch spoke, a cloud passed over the moon; and before the light broke forth again, the hag had vanished.
Vanslyperken paused; he also felt the magic of the word; and although it was but a nominal and temporary divestment of the property, even that gave him a severe struggle; but his avarice was overcome by his feelings of revenge, and he answered solemnly, "As I hope for revenge, mother, all that gold is yours, provided that you do the deed." Here the old hag burst into a sort of shrieking laugh.
But it merely made him stiff. She trailed off to the rest of the company, only turning to wave her handkerchief to him, and to chuckle with laughter, singing out: 'Good-bye, good-bye, little boy. 'Good-bye, impudent hag, he said to himself. They all went through the park. Hermione wanted to show them the wild daffodils on a little slope.
"I will run and bring assistance," cried Dorothy. And she flew to the door, but it resisted her attempts to open it. "Come back," screamed the hag. "You strive in vain. The door is fast shut fast shut. Come back, I say. Who are you?" she added, as the maid drew near, ready to sink with terror. "Your voice is an Assheton's voice. I know you now.
But this old hag ! "Do not shrink from the old Romany woman," advised the hag, her eyes sparkling again. "She would not hurt the little ladies. She is a queen among her people what she says is law to them. Do not fear." "Oh, I see no reason why we should be afraid of you," Ruth said, trying to speak in an unshaken voice.
Then said the hag, "Thou needest not lament on account of that, for there is a prediction he shall have an heir by thee, and by none other. Moreover, be not sorrowful, for he has one son." The lady returned home with joy; and she asked her consort, "Wherefore hast thou concealed thy children from me?" The king said, "I will do so no longer."
Yet he had not covered half the distance back when his progress was impeded by an elderly hag who fed two goats, whose milk alone preserved her from starvation. One small measure of dry grass was all that she was able to provide them with, but she divided it equally between them, to the discontent of both.
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