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But the next day, Sunday, we were out for a walk together and when we were coming home he took out his cigar case and said:--By the by, Simon, I didn't know you smoked, or something like that.--Of course I tried to carry it off as best I could.--If you want a good smoke, he said, try one of these cigars.
"No one else ever comes and looks into the bedrooms after we are in bed.
I have waited so patiently for eight years; for, goodness knows, I knew very well that wonderful things don't happen every day.
"There are many wild beasts in the mountains," he said, shaking his head as he walked away with her, thinking to prepare the frightened woman for the worst, "and I fear that your son has been carried off by one of them."
