Yet I have done nothing for him except call him hard names; and as he is your servant he has nothing to look for from me if I should win the fight with you at last.

Now I have heard much talk of miracles, but this is the only one I have ever seen.

Either Olaf is a liar, or he is a great man and a saint.
He says, I am told, that the monkey which ate one of those figs died.
Well, I never thought of it before, but there are more monkeys in the palace.

Indeed, one lives on the terrace near by, for I fed it this afternoon.

We'll put the matter to the proof and learn of what stuff this Olaf is really made." On the table stood a silver bell, and as he spoke he struck it.