It undulated in the moonlight like a subsiding storm, and beat the encircling banks.

For into its depths shot rather than poured a great volume of water from a huge orifice in the wall, and the roar and the rush were tremendous.

It was like the birth of a river, bounding at once from its mountain rock, and the sound of its fall indicated the great depth of the water into which it plunged.

Solid indeed must be the walls that sustained the outpush of such a weight of water! 'You see now, cousin, what yon fire-souled slave below is labouring at,' said his lordship.

'His task is to fill this cistern, and that he can in a few hours; and yet, such a slave is he, a child who understands his fetters and the joints of his bones can guide him at will.' 'But, my lord,' questioned Dorothy, 'is there not water here to supply the castle for months?
And there is the draw-well in the pitched court besides.' 'Enough, I grant you,' he replied, 'for the mere necessities of life.
But what would come of its pleasures?
Would not the beleaguered ladies miss the bounty of the marble horse?
Whence comes the water he gives so freely that he needeth not to drink himself?
He would thirst indeed but for my water-commanding fiend below.