'I can see your beautiful eyes even in the dark, for then they shine all the more brightly.' "'Then I suppose I have eyes like a cat ?' I made Mariora say.
"'Silly fool!' growled the tempter to himself in Hungarian, which Mariora did not understand.

'No,' he then added in Roumanian, 'you have eyes like stars.' "'But confess now, do you really love me?
Or do you only come hither with evil designs?
Don't you want, now, to cut off the hands of my little child?
for robbers covet the hacked off hands of babies,--they make them invisible.' "At this the man's temper fairly gave way.

He perceived that he was being trifled with and exclaimed roughly: 'Woman, open the door, or I'll bring it down about your ears!' And he gave the door such a blow with his clenched fist that it cracked from end to end.

'I tell you for the last time,' cried he, 'let me in peaceably.

If you will come with me, I will take you, and your child also, to a pleasant place.