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"I like not it," he muttered "God for the Dutchht way; but I will notat all to the purpose That is the truth

Always I have found it so"

Then Lysbet, having finished her second locking up, entered the room

She cah, as she

untied her apron, "By the girls' bedside I stopped one , the sleep is sound"

"Well, then, they were ahen I passed,--that is not so ; I heard them"

"And now they are fast in sleep; their heads are on one pillow, and

Katherine's hand is fast clasped in Joanna's hand The dear ones! Joris,

the elder's words have made trouble in my heart What did the man mean?"

"Who can tell? What a man says, we know; but only God understands what

he means But I will say this, Lysbet, and it is what I hter into the way of teone, we shall be unfriends"

"Give yourself no koirls see what kind of people the world is made of? Have not solish set? And none of them were as

beautiful as Katherine There is no har a

few steps up when she puts on the wedding ring"