All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.