The hermit, after a long grace, which had once been Latin, but of which original language few traces remained, excepting here and there the long rolling termination of some word or phrase, set example to his guest, by modestly putting into a very large mouth, furnished with teeth which might have ranked with those of a boar both in sharpness and whiteness, some three or four dried pease, a miserable grist as it seemed for so large and able a mill.
A remete elmondott egy hosszú asztali áldást, amely valamikor latinul hangzott, de az évek során alaposan kivetkőztették eredeti nyelvéből, legfeljebb a szavak végződése maradt latinos hangzású. Amikor ezzel végzett, a remete - mintha jó példával akarna elöljárni - kinyitotta ha­tal­mas száját, amely tele volt vadkanagyaraknak is beillő, éles fehér fogakkal.