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The garden was a public one, and this gay little party, having tired of

the Indian spectacle, had repaired hither to treat of its own affairs

Moreover, it had been there, scattered upon the grass in view of the

playhouse door, for the better part of an hour Concerned with its oit

and laughter, it had caught no sound of low voices issuing from the

theatre; and for the tho talked within, all outward noise had ranked

as coirl, her silken apron raised to catch the clusters which a

gentleave a little screaentleman One and another

exclaimed, and a withered beauty seated beneath the hed

shrilly

A hts, and Haward had

the situation in hand An easy greeting to the gentlemen, debonair

compliments for the ladies, a question or two as to the entertain forward of Audrey "A little broard and ancient playht to be as tall as

a woo tell the minister what I have said

on the subject he wots of"

Audrey curtsied and went away, having never raised her eyes to note the

stare of curiosity, the suppressed slance from eye to eye,

which had trod upon her introduction to the co

with his friends and acquaintances, gathered grapes for the bloo woer as could be found in Virginia