"That is not the reason.

Do you not believe in the power of the devil?
our Lord Christ forgive me! do not you believe in the power of wicked men?
There is no greater difference between the human child and the changeling brat which the underground spirits lay in his stead in the cradle, than there is between you when you were a boy and you as you became during the last year of your stay here.

'That comes from books, from so much learning,' said I to other people.

Could I only have said so to myself! But you shall become gay; the trouble of your heart shall wither like a poisonous weed.

I know whence it sprung, and will, with God's help, heal it.