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He touched lightly, one by one, the slender fingers of the glove he held "A woth in weakness, veiled power, the star in the hed and threw the glove froh," I said

As he sat opposite reat that I knew before I turned that she was in the room

The bundle which I had carried for her froht Why, when she fled, she chose to burden herself with such toys, or whether she gave a thought to the suspicions that inia if one of Sir Edwyn's maids bedecked herself in silk and lace and jewels, I do not know, but she had brought to the forest and the tobacco fields the gauds of a maid of honor The Puritan dress in which I first saw her was a thing of the past; she clothed herself now like the parrakeets in the forest,--or liker the lilies of the field, for verily she toiled not, neither did she spin

Rolfe and I rose from our seats "Mistress Percy," I said, "let ood friend, Master John Rolfe"

She curtsied, and he bowed low He was a man of quick wit and had been at court, but for a time he could find no words Then: "Mistress Percy's face is not one to be forgotten I have surely seen it before, though where"-Her color h "Probably in London, aed in honor of the princess, your wife, sir," she said carelessly "I had twice the fortune to see the Lady Rebekah passing through the streets"

"Not in the streets only," he said courteously "I remember now: 't was at my lord bishop's dinner A very courtly co with aze fully and boldly "Mee tricks at tihtly raised voice, "and it hath been three years since Master Rolfe and his Indian princess were in London His reat chair which stood in the centre of the rooht a cushion for her feet It was not until this was done, and until she had resigned her fan to the slave, who stood behind her sloaving the plumed toy to and fro, that she turned her lovely face upon us and bade us be seated