Yet, for all that, if I were his love, see his face I would." "He told me I should die of fright if I beheld it." "Then I _would_ die of fright--but I would see it." "His eyes are very fine,--they glow like coals." "Like coals?
Perhaps he is the Dracu[16] himself.

Have you ever tried to make him kiss the amulet on which is the image of St.George and the Dragon ?" [Footnote 16: Dracu-dragon, _i.e._, devil.] "Yes he has kissed it and was none the worse." "Have you tried to get him to lay his three fingers on a copper crucifix ?" "He laid his fingers thereon and yet they were not burnt." "Can he say the prayer of condemnation without trembling ?" "He has said it hundreds of times." "Nevertheless, I maintain he is no mortal man." "If he should love another woman, I swear that he will very soon find out that he _is_ mortal." Talking thus the riders had descended into the depths of the valley, and when the mountain stream again crossed their path they quitted the usual footpath and followed the bed of the stream.

And a very good road it is for such as do not wish to leave foot-marks behind them.

The rapid current swiftly fills the traces of the horses' hoofs with leaves and pebbles.
The ravine grew ever deeper and narrower, and the stream at intervals formed small cataracts which the horses, who had been trained thereto, had to cross.

Finally, at a sudden declivity, the water took an unexpected leap of four yards, and when the riders reined up at this very spot, it was plain that here a mill had been built into the hillside, whose wheel it was which drove the swiftly plunging water along.
If a stranger saw this mill he would certainly say: "What foolish man the miller must be who has built his mill here," (-- --) and that for three reasons.