The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

DOUBTING CASTLE
Not far from the place where they slept — there was a castle called
Doubting Castle — whose owner was Giant Despair. It was on his grounds
that the Pilgrims were now sleeping.
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Giant Despair, getting up early in the morning, and walking up and
down in his fields — caught Christian and Hopeful asleep on his
grounds. Then, with a grim and surly voice, he ordered them to awake.
He asked them where they came from — and what they were doing on
his grounds.
They told him that they were Pilgrims, and that they had lost their way.
Then the Giant declared, "You are trespassing on my grounds —
and therefore you must come along with me!”
So they were forced to go with him, because he was stronger than they.
The Pilgrims had but little to say, for they knew themselves to be at
fault. The Giant therefore drove them before him, and put them into a
very dark, nasty and stinking dungeon of his castle.
Here then they lay from Wednesday morning until Saturday night —
without one bit of bread, or drop of water, or light, or anyone to help
them. Therefore they were in a dreadful state — being far from friends
and assistance.
Now in this place Christian had a double sorrow — for it was through
his ill-advised counsel that they were brought into this distress.
Now, Giant Despair had a wife whose name was Diffidence. When he
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