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"I think she could not have heard all these words, for I perceived that

they called her away in haste, as the bridegrooht of my sorrow set in, the sun of ht, my mind of reason I could not enter the house, nor

was I capable of anyhow iht take place on the occasion, I nerved

myself as best I could and went in, for I well knew all the entrances and

outlets; and besides, with the confusion that in secret pervaded the

house no one took notice ofseen, I found an

opportunity of placing myself in the recess formed by aof the

hall itself, and concealed by the ends and borders of two tapestries,

fro seen, see all that took place

in the rooitation of heart I suffered as I

stood there--the thoughts that cah my mind? They were such as cannot be, nor were it well they

should be, told Suffice it to say that the bridegroom entered the hall

in his usual dress, without ornaroomsman he had

with him a cousin of Luscinda's and except the servants of the house