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It fixed in his cheek and jaw, wringing an awful breath of pain from him as he fell against the wall. 'There's a lesson for you not to cross me, children! said Werner, striding his stumpy legs up and down the crashing board, and puffing his monstrous girth of chest and midriff. 'Let him stop there awhile, to show what comes of thwarting Werner! Fire-devils! before the baroness, too!
It fixed in his cheek and jaw, wringing an awful breath of pain from him as he fell against the wall. 'There's a lesson for you not to cross me, children! said Werner, striding his stumpy legs up and down the crashing board, and puffing his monstrous girth of chest and midriff. 'Let him stop there awhile, to show what comes of thwarting Werner! Fire-devils! before the baroness, too!
"He was consulting with the spirits in the night when he sent forth those fire-devils?" Another nod. "Wow! And the spirits told him to build a wall across the entrance, and to make a fence across the river?" "That was wisely done, as you see, mother." "Haw! Tell me why the spirits told him to move the village to a place which is further from this cave;" and she looked through narrowed eyes.
After our delicious repast of fruits and cold, clear water we set off again to reach the port of Stromboli. It would not have been wise to tell how we came there. The superstitious Italians would have set us down for fire-devils vomited out of hell; so we presented ourselves in the humble guise of shipwrecked mariners. It was not so glorious, but it was safer.
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