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"To the Devil with all that!" interrupted the other, rolling his eye over the landscape. "_I_ go through no streets and past no fountains.
Here I was thrown upon my back, and beheld standing over me a colossal ape-like creature, white and hairless except for an enormous shock of bristly hair upon its head.
The widow stared in open-mouthed wonder at the priest's surprising words.
We might hide among the great trees for a time, but the chances are small indeed for escape.