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her mouth

"Goddess, to be sure," said she; "peaches have such rough skins,

and pluoddesses," I added, "were all very well upon Olye,

for myself--"

"Have you ever seen this particular Goddess?" inquired my

companion

"Never"

"Then wait until you have, sir"

The moon was do, yet the summer sky onderfully

luminous and in the east I alleam of day And after we had traversed some

distance in silence,at me

"You have never once asked who I aht, "nor how I came to be shut up in such a

place--with such a eneral rule to avoid

aard subjects when I can, and never to ask questions that it

will be difficult to answer"

"I should find not the least difficulty in answering either,"

said she

"Besides," I continued, "it is no affair of mine, after all"