What say the leeches this morning, Beorn?

"It is not so, an it please your pagehood," said the leech.

"You are agreed then?" said the leech, and she nodded eager assent.

"Well enough, says the leech; but he had well-nigh died in the night."

"Amen," said the leech; and Paula had been quite satisfied by her friend's arrangements.

"The cries are fainter," said the leech; "in ten minutes more all will be past."

"A great mistake, in my opinion," said the leech.

"Yes, that too," said the leech with stern gravity.

"Complain aloud," said the leech to the lady; "cry!

"See!" said the leech; "she again opens her eyes.

'Ay, ye may go,' said the leech.

"Perfectly well," said the leech, "and later life has but confirmed the opinion I then held.

"If it were to save your Highness trouble," said the leech, with his usual subdued laugh.

"I!..." said the leech with a lofty smile.

"They have been few," said the leech.

"There is none other," said the leech, to whose evil nature his patron's distress was delicious nourishment.