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Quotation from Christ Legends by Selma Lagerlöf
“What kind of a night is this, when the dogs do not bite, the sheep are not scared, the staff does not kill, or the fire scorch?”
Christ Legends, The Holy Night, trans. Velma Swanston Howard (1908)
The hard-hearted shepherd wonders why nothing will harm the poor man who came for fire.
Citation: "What kind of a night is this, when the dogs do not bite, the sheep are not scared, the staff does not kill, or the fire scorch?" — Selma Lagerlöf, Christ Legends, The Holy Night, trans. Velma Swanston Howard (1908). (id christ-legends-q2)
Portrait: Atelje Jaeger - Selma Lagerlöf 1928, Atelier Jaeger, Public domain.
