Each wanted to point out to the other the cause of his alarm, but each found the same expression of horror depicted on the face of his neighbor, only that his hands and eyes were directed to a different point where the monster, half-laughing and half-threatening, rose before him.

When, however, they all wished to make each other understand what each saw, and all were crying out: "Look there! No, there!" the horrible heads all at one and the same time appeared to their view, and the whole river around the vessel swarmed with the most hideous apparitions.

The universal cry raised at the sight awoke Undine.

As she opened her eyes, the wild crowd of distorted visages disappeared.

But Huldbrand was indignant at such unsightly jugglery.