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Yet the certainty--for that it was--coincided with her lurking

suspicion of the virtue lying in her own strong love It made that

suspicion hardy; it budded, as I have said, and bore a flower She

could feel and fondle her ring again, and talk to it at night "Lie

snug," she would say, "lie close He will coain and put thee in

place, for such love as ainsaid" Thus she grew healthy as she grew full of heart, and gained

sleek looks for any who had had eyes to see them

Luckily for her, at present there was none It is providence for the

earth-born that their mother's lap soon takes furrows in which they

may run The charcoal-burners' life was no exception: hard work from

dawn to dusk, food your only recreation, sleep your only solace The

weather is no new thing to you, to gape at and talk about As well

entry talk about the joys of their daily bath You have no

quarrels, do no sins, for you have neither wo waters in

your forest tents And if you kne, you would thank God that you

are incapable of thought, since a thinking vegetable were a lost

vegetable To think is to hope, and to hope is to sin against

religion, which says, God saw that it was good More than any