. Undine. and spectral illusion haunted its glades, so thatnone might dare adventure unless a sheer necessitydrave them. Nathless,the worthy fisherman might pass unharmed,whensoever he was carrying some choice fish caughtin his beautiful home to a large town bordering theconfines of the forest. He was a man full of holythoughts, and as he took his way through the gloomyshades peopled with forms of dread, he was wont tosing a pious chaunt with a clear voice, and an honestheart, and a conscience void of guile. Well, the fisherman sate him over his nets, and heminded no evil, when a sudden fear c
. Undine. and spectral illusion haunted its glades, so thatnone might dare adventure unless a sheer necessitydrave them. Nathless,the worthy fisherman might pass unharmed,whensoever he was carrying some choice fish caughtin his beautiful home to a large town bordering theconfines of the forest. He was a man full of holythoughts, and as he took his way through the gloomyshades peopled with forms of dread, he was wont tosing a pious chaunt with a clear voice, and an honestheart, and a conscience void of guile. Well, the fisherman sate him over his nets, and heminded no evil, when a sudden fear came over thought he heard a rustling noise in the forest asthough a horse and rider were drawing every momentnearer to his little home. And it seemed as thoughall he had dreamed on many a stormy night of thewizardry of the forest was coming to his ken, andabove all, the semblance of a snow-white man, huge At the back of this little tongue of land there laya fearsome forest right perilous to traverse. HOW THE KNIGHT CAME 5 and terrible, who nodded his head unceasingly withvague and bodeful portent. Nay, but as he raised hiseyes towards the wood, he thought he saw the noddingman drawing nigh through the branches of the comfort came to him and a better mind : for hebethought himself how no evil had befallen him evenin the forest itself, and here upon the open tongue ofland there was little chance of evil influences. So hesaid aloud a verse from Holy Writ, repeating it withall his heart, and his courage came back so that healmost laughed at the vain fancy that had possessedhim. And the white nodding man he saw to benothing but a stream, well-known and familiar, whichran foaming from the forest and fell into the the noise he had heard was no fancy. It was insooth caused by a gallant knight, bravely apparelled,who issued forth from the shadow of the wood andcame riding towards the cottage. A scarlet mantlewas thrown over his doublet, embroidered with gold;re
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