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although she does not avoid or shun the society and conversation of the

shepherds, and treats them courteously and kindly, should any one of theh it be one as proper and holy

as that of s him from her like a catapult And with

this kind of disposition she does ot into it, for her affability and her beauty draw on the

hearts of those that associate with her to love her and to court her, but

her scorn and her frankness bring them to the brink of despair; and so

they know not what to say save to proclaim her aloud cruel and

hard-hearted, and other names of the same sort which well describe the

nature of her character; and if you should remain here any ti with the laments of the

rejected ones who pursue her Not far from this there is a spot where

there are a couple of dozen of tall beeches, and there is not one of them

but has carved and written on its smooth bark the name of Marcela, and

above soh her lover would say

more plainly that Marcela wore and deserved that of all hu, there another is laies One will pass all the hours of

the night seated at the foot of so eyes, the sun finds hi bemused

and bereft of sense; and another without relief or respite to his sighs,

stretched on the burning sand in the full heat of the sultry summer

noontide, makes his appeal to the compassionate heavens, and over one and

the other, over these and all, the beautiful Marcela triumphs free and

careless And all of us that know her are waiting to see what her pride

will come to, and who is to be the happy aining possession of a beauty so supre such well-established truth, I am persuaded

that what they say of the cause of Chrysostom's death, as our lad told

us, is the same And so I advise you, senor, fail not to be present

to-, for Chrysostoue from this place to where he

directed he should be buried"