The laborer looked at Chilo with immense alarm, as if not understanding what he had heard. But the Greek, covering his head with a corner of his mantle, began to repeat, with a voice coming as if from beneath the earth,—"Woe to you, servants of the true God! woe to you, Christian men and Christian women!"
And again came silence, again were heard only the roar of the millstones, the deep song of the millers, and the sound of the river.
