A carrier who was walking behind him heard these words , and asked him : `` Who are you '' `` I do n't know , '' said the youth . `` Where do you hail from ? '' `` I do n't know . '' `` Who 's your father ? '' `` I may n't say . '' `` What are you constantly muttering to yourself ? '' `` Oh ! '' said the youth , `` I would give worlds to shudder , but no one can teach me . '' `` Stuff and nonsense ! '' spoke the carrier ; `` come along with me , and I 'll soon put that right . '' The youth went with the carrier , and in the evening they reached an inn , where they were to spend the night . Then , just as he was entering the room , he said again , quite aloud : `` Oh ! if I could only shudder ! if I could only shudder ! '' The landlord , who heard this , laughed and said : `` If that 's what you 're sighing for , you shall be given every opportunity here . '' `` Oh ! hold your tongue ! '' said the landlord 's wife ; `` so many people have paid for their curiosity with their lives , it were a thousand pities if those beautiful eyes were never again to behold daylight . '' But the youth said : `` No matter how difficult , I insist on learning it ; why , that 's what I 've set out to do . '' He left the landlord no peace till he told him that in the neighborhood stood a haunted castle , where one could easily learn to shudder if one only kept watch in it for three nights .
The King had promised the man who dared to do this thing his daughter XXXXX wife , and she was the most beautiful maiden under the sun .
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