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and felt nervous"

"If you please, Mr Brownso on till you've

done, and Ihimself on a bushel basket which he

turned upside down, a couple of cats sprang in his lap, another got on

his shoulder, and he went on talking while I thrust an arh one

of the rounds of the ladder, and leaned back against it as he went on

"Well, Grant," he said, "Brother Anselm felt sorry now that he had leave

to perform his experiment, and he went slowly back to the cell and

talked to the poor swineherd, a fine handso man with fair curly

brown hair and a skin as white as a woman's where the sun had not tanned

him

"And he talked to him about how he felt; and the poor fellow said he

felt one, but that he

did not think he should ever be well any more