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"Love," exclai this time;

"noho the devil should she be in love with!"

"That,yet observed But now, by

your leave, I'll pass the word for breakfast"

Hereupon the landlord of "The Spotted Cow" opened the lattice, and

sent a deep-lunged hail across the yard

"Ahoy!" he roared, "Oliver, Penelope, Bess--breakfast ho!--breakfast

for the Viscount--and friend They be all watching of that theer

irooh s

equally ready wi' his tongue as his fist"

Here entered two maids, both soht of eye, neat of person, and light of foot, who very

soon had laid a snowy cloth and duly set out thereon the beef, the

bread and cheese, and a hty ham, before which the Viscount seated

himself forthwith, while their sailor host, more jovial than ever,

pointed out its

seen his guests seated opposite each other, he pulled his forelock

at the to them, and left them to their breakfast