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Stories for the household (1889)

Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William), 1832-1894, Bayes, Alfred Walter, 1832-1909, ill · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 616

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e, cut thebonds that confined his hands and feet, and beckoned him to follow her. He uttered some holy names and made the sign of the cross; andwhen the form remained montionless at his side, he said, Who art thou ? Whence this animal shape that thou bearest, whileyet thou art full of gentle mercy… … THE FLIGHT. holding fast by the horses mane. The prisoner understood her mean-ing, and in a rapid trot they rode on a way which he would never havefound, out on to the open heath. He thought not of her hideous form, hut felt how the mercy andloving-kindness of the Almighty were working by means of…

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