[Phantastes by George MacDonald]@TWC D-Link bookPhantastes CHAPTER XXIII 6/32
You will find her there, and I think she will get better.
You see I have brought you a present.
This wretch will not hurt you again." And he undid the creature's neck, and flung the frightful burden down by the cottage door. The woman was now almost out of sight in the wood; but the husband stood at the door, with speechless thanks in his face. "You must bury the monster," said the knight.
"If I had arrived a moment later, I should have been too late.
But now you need not fear, for such a creature as this very rarely appears, in the same part, twice during a lifetime." "Will you not dismount and rest you, Sir Knight ?" said the peasant, who had, by this time, recovered himself a little. "That I will, thankfully," said he; and, dismounting, he gave the reins to me, and told me to unbridle the horse, and lead him into the shade. "You need not tie him up," he added; "he will not run away." When I returned, after obeying his orders, and entered the cottage, I saw the knight seated, without his helmet, and talking most familiarly with the simple host.
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