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" And what I give I can retract at will!" "Come, come, you know very well you can do nothing of the sort. I refer you to Saevius Nicanor. None of the Leshy can ever take back the priceless gift of youth. "Now, but I am becoming angry " "To the contrary, as I perceive with real regret, you are becoming ridiculous, since you dispute the authority of Saevius Nicanor."
He made a song of this, in praise of the Leshy and their Days, but more especially in praise of the might of Mother Sereda and of the ruins that have fallen on Wednesday. To Chetverg and Utornik and Subbota he gave their due. Pyatinka and Nedelka also did Jurgen commend for such demolishments as have enregistered their names in the calendar of saints, no less.
I am looking for my wife, whom I suspect to have been carried off by a devil, poor fellow! Now, having lost my way, I have come to pass the night under your roof." "Very good: but few come seeking Mother Sereda of their own accord." Then Jurgen knew with whom he talked: and inwardly he was perturbed, for all the Leshy are unreliable in their dealings. So when he spoke it was very civilly.
"There was a woman of the Leshy who not long ago showed me an employment to which one might put the blood of white pigeons. She too used such a mirror. I saw what followed, but I must tell you candidly that I understood nothing of the ins and outs of the affair." Merlin nodded. "I suspected something of the sort.
Or can it be that Miramon spoke seriously in saying that fate also was enleagued to forbid the leaving of this mountain?" "No, Manuel, I do not say that I am fate nor any of the Léshy, but rather it seems to me that I am insane. So perhaps the less attention you pay to my talking, the better.
Dom Manuel asked the magician, privately. "I confess he very often has that appearance." "Then why do you make him my overlord?" "I have my reasons, you may depend upon it, and if I do not talk about them you may be sure that for this reticence also I have my reasons." "But is this Horvendile, then, one of the Léshy? Is he the Horvendile whose great-toe is the morning star?"
"And I shall not tell you of it, Horvendile, since you are not fate nor any of the Léshy, to give me my desire." "What would be your desire?" "My wish would be for me always to obtain whatever I may wish for. Yes, Horvendile, I have often wondered why, in the old legends, when three wishes were being offered, nobody ever made that sensible and economical wish the first of all."
And therefore my shadow was angry that in the revelation of so much futile trifling I did not take away the youth I gave as I have half a mind to do, even now, I warn you, dearie, for there is really no putting up with you. But I spared you because of my shadow's grudging reports as to your continence, which is a virtue that we of the Leshy peculiarly revere." Now Jurgen considered.
"What need is there to trouble the Léshy about that foolish wish when it is always possible, at a paid price, to obtain whatever one desires? You have but to go about it in this way." And Horvendile told Manuel a queer and dangerous thing. Then Horvendile said sadly: "So much knowledge I can deny nobody at Michaelmas.
Nor do I know what my desire is, even now. But I know that it is not possible for me to become young again, whatever I may appear to others." "Indeed, Jurgen, youth has passed out of your heart, beyond the reach of Leshy: and the nearest you can come to regaining youth is to behave childishly."
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