“They have hidden away with the bears in the earth; for the frost comes, and it is the time of sleep.”

“A cold hand was knocking at my heart when I said my aves last night, my Antoine.”

“The heart of a woman feels many strange things: I cannot answer, my wife.”

“Let us go also southward, Antoine, before the great winds and the wild frost come.”

“I love thee, Angelique, but I cannot go.”

“Is not love greater than all?”

“To keep a pledge is greater.”

“Yet if evil come?”

“There is the mine.”

“None travels hither; who should find it?”