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Sitting one winter night by a glorious winter fire, while the snow and

hail lashed the s, and the ithout roared like Botto tale Here, as it

paused abruptly, and seean to ask questions What happened the dwarf and his

cosley go

to Devonshire, and did either of theue? I felt, estion was beneath contempt, and so a

withering look froh to answer the rest of

put into his

fearfully, they all died in a week, and so ed to cheat the

executioner Hubert went to France, and laid his clai able to do otherwise, was graciously pleased to

acknowledge them; and Hubert became the Marquis de Montmorenci, and in

the fullness of tihters of

the land, and lived happy for ever after

And Sir Noro to the old manor in Devonshire,

where--with tradition and my informant--there is to be seen to this day,

an old fa

the knight and his lady sitting serenely in their "ain ingle nook"

with their faraver, in the serious dignity of pater familias; and Leoline, with the