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After a long wrangle it seeain the door-bolts were drawn, again the door opened by the old man,

and this time opened wide With boer than the occasion demanded,

Prosper was invited to be pleased to enter He saw to his horse first,

and made what provision he could for him in an outhouse Then he

stooped his head and entered the cottage

He came directly into a bare room, which was, you , and stank very vilely The floor was

of beaten clay, like the walls; for furniture it had a table and

bench Sooty cobwebs dripped froreat spiders ran

ni skins

in one corner two rats were busy, and in another were some dry leaves

and bracken There was no chi in what youof it; it was so and fit his eyes to see the occupants of his lodging

Isoult, he saw, stood in theon the table

with both her hands; her bead was hanging, and her hair veiled all her

face Near her, also standing, was the oldand 's

eyes His scanty hair, his beard, hite; his eyebrohite