At this moment a distant noise of barking and growling, which the traveller had for some time heard, became extremely loud and furious, and made the knight suppose that the hermit, alarmed by his threat of making forcible entry, had called the dogs who made this clamour to aid him in his defence, out of some inner recess in which they had been kennelled.
Ebben a pillanatban a tompa morgás és csaholás, amelyet a lovag egy idő óta már hallani vélt, megerősödött, és dühös ugatássá fokozódott. A remete alighanem megijedt az utas fenyegető hangjától, és segítségül hívta a kutyáit, valami ólból vagy kamrából, ahol tartotta őket.