"No, you did your work too badly."
"I am hungry."
"So much the better!"
"I am hungry, I can't walk any more."
"Into your cage you go, then!"
And he put her in the basket, despite her resistance, and ran away with her at full speed.
The unfortunate creature's shrieks died away without echo in the vast plain.
"Mario! Mario!" she wailed in a voice broken by sobs; "I want to see Mario. Villain! assassin! You promised that I should see Mario, who used to give me things to eat and play with me, and his mother, who kept me from being beaten! Mercedes! Mario! come to help me! Kill him! he is hurting me, he is shaking me, he is killing me, he is starving me to death! Damnation on him! death and blood and murder! The lash, the stake, the wheel, hell itself for the wicked!"
Man without tongue and of great heart,
Learning has triumphed over misery.