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Excerpt from Dionysius the Weaver's Heart's Dearest Between the Danube and the Neckar, high in the bleak hill country known as The Rough Alp, perched the hamlet Hexenfels. Grim rocks grouped in evil counsel dominated the barren land; peasants flat roofs would have whirled away were they not freighted with heavy stones; and nothing man, mouse, or moss could well exist unless hardy enough to defy the long sweep of icy winds that battled here with fury all unspent, though they had rushed from the far frozen north across a continent. Close behind the poor cottage of Dionysius the weaver towered the Witch-Tooth, a formidable crag, sparsely overgrown with patches of straggling bushes, vines, stout small leaves, and a few flowers of undismayed temperament. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.