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Ferdinand sounded the beldame with a thousand artful interrogations andbook31 she answered with such appearance of truth and simplicity that he concluded his person was quite secure and after having been regaled with a dish of eggs and bacon desired she would conduct him into the chamber where she proposed he should take his repose. Accordingly the heavens contracted a more dreary aspect the lightning began to gleam and the thunder to roll and the tempest raising its voice to a tremendous roar descended in a torrent of rain.... read all
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