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This astonished Tom, and also fired his curiosity to fever heat. He said,
eagerly--
"It is wonderful! Hath it always this dread effect?"
"Always, my liege--at least if the woman desire it, and utter the needful
words, either in her mind or with her tongue."
Tom turned to the woman, and said with impetuous zeal--
"
Exert thy power--I would see a storm!"
There was a sudden paling of cheeks in the superstitious assemblage, and
a general, though unexpressed, desire to get out of the place--all of
which was lost upon Tom, who was dead to everything but the proposed
cataclysm. Seeing a puzzled and astonished look in the woman's face, he
added, excitedly--
"Never fear--thou shalt be blameless. More--thou shalt go free--none
shall touch thee. Exert thy power."
"
Oh, my lord the King, I have it not--I have been falsely accused."
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