He wants to kill a faithful animal in order that he may steal a poor man's only treasure--his wife." "How so ?" "Listen, my lady, and I will tell you.

After this had happened, Juon Tare's wife, Mariora, came to me at an unusual hour.

Generally she only comes on a Sunday for prayers.

What she said to me was not so much a confession made to a priest as a confidence reposed in a friend; I am therefore not committing sacrilege by retailing it to another person.
That young woman is exposed to temptation." "What! in the midst of the forest ?" "Yes, in the midst of the forest, where, for weeks at a stretch, the herdsman hears no other human voice than his own thrown back to him by the echoes.

The seducer in this case is Fatia Negra." "Then he must dwell hard by." "None knows his abiding dwelling, but his temporary resting places among the high Alps are these herdsmen's lonely huts.