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though the spirit of the aged grandfather entered into them, and said “I am freed at last from these torture chambers, ye have entered into them.”
The other gaiety, the gaiety of the young folk, lasted long into the night, and when they stepped into the hall of their farm house they seemed to hear even the walls re-echoing with mirth and jollity, and they had but to lightly hint their will and all was full of merriment. And they did hint their will: and it was as though the tutelary deity of the place threw wide the doors, and said “Ye enter here omnipotent; so, then, tarry not, but enter.”
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