Originalan tekst - Engleski - Young Goodman Brown

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Methought as she spoke there was trouble in her face, as if a dream had warned her what work is to be done tonight. But no, no; it would kill her to think it.

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He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind.

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he glanced fearfully behind him as he added, "What if the devil himself should be at my very elbow!"

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And yet, though the elder person was as simply clad as the younger, and as simple in manner too
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But the only thing about him that could be fixed upon as remarkable was his staff, which bore the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought that it might almost be seen to twist and wriggle itself like a living serpent.

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Sayest thou so?" replied he of the serpent, smiling apart. "Let us walk on, nevertheless, reasoning as we go; and if I convince thee not thou shalt turn back. We are but a little way in the forest yet."

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"My father never went into the woods on such an errand, nor his father before him.
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We have been a race of honest men and good Christians since the days of the martyrs; and shall I be the first of the name of Brown that ever took this path and kept"

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If it be as thou gayest "
they never spoke of these matters ; or verily I marvel not seeing that the least rumor of the sort would have driven them from new England .

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Howbeit