Believe me, madness has thee already, head and heart.

Or wouldest thou that she should remain?
For that, however, thou must be more courteous to me than thou art now." Therewith he raised his voice towards the sea, as if fiercely rebuking it, so that Sintram could not but shudder and tremble before the dwarf.
But he checked himself, and grasping his sword-hilt with both hands, he said, contemptuously: "Thou and Gabrielle! what acquaintance hast thou with Gabrielle ?" "Not much," was the reply.

And the little Master might be seen to quake with fear and rage as he continued: "I cannot well bear the name of thy Helen; do not din it in my ears ten times in a breath.

But if the tempest should increase?
If the waves should swell, and roll on till they form a foaming ring round the whole coast of Norway?
The voyage to Montfaucon must in that case be altogether given up, and thy Helen would remain here, at least through the long, long, dark winter." "If! if!" replied Sintram, with scorn.

"Is the sea thy bond-slave?
Are the storms thy fellow-workmen ?" "They are rebels, accursed rebels," muttered the little Master in his red beard.