I can't understand; I am amazed.

What is this tale ?" Together they told him, while his blue eyes now opened wide with wonder, now grew soft with pity, then blazed with indignation.

When they had finished he laid his hand upon Doret's shoulder.
"My son, I thank God for your good body and your clean heart.

You saved our Necia, and you will be rewarded.

As to this--this--man Runnion, we must find him, and he must be sent out of the country; this new, clean land of ours is no place for such as he.