In the centre of the other were merry laughing ripples, like the bubbles on a glass of wine.

They danced before him.
"'Who are you,' asked the hunter, 'who alone come to me in my solitude and darkness ?' "'We are the twins Sensuality,' they cried.

'Our father's name is Human-Nature, and our mother's name is Excess.

We are as old as the hills and rivers, as old as the first man; but we never die,' they laughed.
"'Oh, let me wrap my arms about you!; cried the first; 'they are soft and warm.

Your heart is frozen now, but I will make it beat.