"They laugh at those prophets in foreign countries," said Flotard, "What is your opinion of them?" "I know not what to say to it,"
answered Roland; I frequently see the miracle before my eyes, that these men know things which no one can learn by natural means; but again it often strikes me, that blind pa.s.sion alone speaks out of them, and that they voluntarily excite themselves to this state. The prophets sometimes contradict one another. They direct our proceedings, and it occurs occasionally that my regulations deviate from their wishes, but I have sometimes had reason to repent of this.--Come now to the magazines, and we shall consider what may be most necessary to us.
Roland called out, and accompanied by a few followers, they both penetrated into the darkness of the forest.
END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.