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THE HOUSE OF THE INTERPRETER 149
out, "Only think who is at the door ! It is Christiana and her children and her companion, and they wait to be lodged and entertained here to-night."
Then the Interpreter himself went to the door and welcomed them.
"Come in, thou faithful one," he said. "Come, children, come in. Come, maiden, come in."
So he led them into the great room of the house, and bade them sit down and rest. And all who were of the household came in to see them: and one smiled, and another smiled, and all smiled for joy.
Now, while supper was being made ready, the Interpreter took them into the different rooms and showed them the moving pictures and the other wonderful things which he had shown to Christian some time before. They saw the two children, Patience and Passion, and the man in the cage, and the man and his dream, and other instructive and curious things.
The Interpreter took them also into a room where there was a man with his eyes always turned towards the ground. This man had a muck rake in his hands, and he did nothing but rake to himself the straws and the sticks and the dust of the earth. But above his head there was a golden crown, which he might have taken |
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