I would her strange kindred would leave us alone.'

Thinking thus, the knight looked with displeasure at his poor wife.
She knew but too well what his glance meant, and worn out with sorrow
and with her constant watch over Kühleborn, she at length fell fast
asleep.

But no sooner were her eyes closed than her uncle again began his
tiresome tricks.

It seemed to the sailors, and indeed to all on board, that they were
bewitched, for look which way each one would, there before him,
peering out of the water, was the head of a very ugly man.

Each man turned, in his terror, to point out to his fellow the hideous
head. But on every face the same horror was already painted. Then when
each tried to tell the other what each one had seen, they ended by
crying out together, 'See, here is the face! nay, look, it is here!'

Undine awoke as the terrified crew broke into loud screams, and as she
opened her eyes the ugly faces vanished.

But Huldbrand had not been frightened. He had been growing more and
more angry, and now he would have spoken roughly to his wife, had she
not pleaded with loving eyes and soft voice, 'For God's sake, rebuke
me not while we are on the water. Bethink you of your promise.'

The knight was silent, for well he remembered how Undine had entreated
him never to reprove her while she was near water.