"'Whenever you are about to commit some rash act, put off your purpose till the morrow.'
"He, therefore, thought he would postpone his revenge till the next day, and he went downstairs to have his supper.
"'Who lives opposite,' he asked of the landlord, 'in that house where they seem to be having such grand doings?'
"'A very virtuous woman,' quoth the host, 'whose husband disappeared in a strange, mysterious way on the eighth day of the wedding feast, and has never been heard of since.'
"'And she never married again?'
"'No, of course not.'
"'But who are those two handsome priests that are with her?'
"'Those are her two boys, twins born shortly after the marriage. The house is illuminated as to-morrow the two young men are to be consecrated priests, and their mother is giving a feast in their honour.'
"On the morrow the husband went home, made himself known, presented each of his two sons with a sack of gold coins, gave his wife all the beautiful presents he had bought for her; then he went to church and assisted at the ceremony of the consecration. After that he gave all his old friends a splendid feast, which lasted eight days; and he told them how, for twenty-five years, he had served the devil, who was by no means as black as he is painted."
"I wonder," said the child, "if he got thin again after the feast."