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"Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the e'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. " (_Macbeth_).
Steven, in his turn, had a tale to tell; and, as they retraced their way back towards the Burg through the gathering shadows, he narrated to the fiddler, with great simplicity, the episode with the Burgravine which had led him, first into the _oubliette_, and ultimately to the quarrel with Sidonia.