Derborence

"Woman," he said, "woman, take care... They look like bodies, but there is nothing underneath... Just stay one night with me in the cabin, under the rock, if you want to hear and see them. I have heard and seen them; they are white, they are empty, and they wander around and lament; they make sounds like the wind on the ridge of a stone block, like when a pebble rolls on the bottom of the stream..." And now she stood still too, and he raised his hand: "Do you know what that is called up there? ... Yes, there, you see, the ridge and the notch in it... D..I..A.. he has managed it this time..." He nodded his head. "And the one you are looking for, listen to me, he is as false as the others. He only dares to move further forward, that’s why he has come down, but he just wants to deceive you... He wants you to be dead so he can have you..." And he says: "Ah!, for he knows the dangerous spots! This place is full of holes, between the rock blocks, full of stones that topple; full of folds and cracks... Don’t go, Thérèse, don’t go!".