This wall they were completing, foot by foot, along with the stair.

But the people said they had no just pretext for interfering: although the real reason for letting the giants alone was, that everybody was far too much afraid of them to interrupt them.
"At length, with the help of a neighbouring quarry, the whole of the external wall of the castle was finished.

And now the country folks were in greater fear than before.

But for several years the giants remained very peaceful.

The reason of this was afterwards supposed to be the fact, that they were distantly related to several good people in the country; for, as long as these lived, they remained quiet; but as soon as they were all dead the real nature of the giants broke out.