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It was by this tie, they found thee of a dense beech-wood, to

which there appeared no end Froround they could see

that the land sloped very gradually away into the distance; upon it

the giant trees stood like pillars of a church, whose floor was broith the waste and litter of a hundred years Long alleys of shade

stretched out on all sides of theraunt; there seemed either no way or countless ways before theood as the other They rested themselves in sheer

bewilderht

with her; then Prosper found out how tired he was

"Wife," said he, "if all the devils in Christendom were after me it

would not keep me awake I must sleep for half-an-hour"

"Sleep, sleep,

to serve him

He unlaced his helm and body-arirl's lap She had very cool and soft hands, and now she

put one of the down nervously

to see hoould take such daring from his servant What she saw

coht herself like to die of

joy He wondered again that such delicate little hands should have

been reared on Spurnt Heath, and endured the service of the lowest; it