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he spoke, he felt his legs stiffen and
turn to marble. And when he went on
to relate the affair of the horse in the
same manner, he became visibly stone
up to the waist, stiffening miserably -
a thing which at another time he
would have paid in ready money, but
which now his heart wept at. At last,
when he came to the affair of the
dragon, he stood like a statue in the
middle of the hall, stone from head to
foot.
