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It must now be related that your emissary is roused from his sleep early in the morning, after having been witness the previous evening to the conversation that was cited above. There was a hammering with clenched fists on my door-not with the knuckles, however, but with the side of the hand, the way women use their fists for hitting.
Embi jumps out of bed in alarm, half-naked: What's wrong? Woman's voice: The Angler cannot be woken up.