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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

CHAPTER XI
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He answered, 'Not one of his words can be doubted'.

Sir Grim asked him whether the devil was good-looking.

He answered: 'He is far better-looking than you, you -- - ugly snout!' I asked him whether the devils agreed well with each other.

He answered in a kind of sobbing voice: 'It is painful to know that they never have peace'.

I bade him say something to me in German, and said to him Lass uns Teusc redre (sic), but he answered as if he had misunderstood me.
"When we went to bed in the evening he shouted fiercely in the middle of the floor, 'On this night I shall snatch you off to hell, and you shall not rise up out of bed as you lay down'.


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