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songs, ventured on heavy play, would pinch her ear or her cheek, ave way; she

jumped up to shake herself free There was a short tussle Her cap

fell off, and all the dusky curtain of her hair about her shoulders

ran rippling to her middle No concealment could avail between the, atched

hiuardedly with lips a-quiver

Falve did not hesitate to take her hand "Come and see," he said, and

led her away Across the brook he showed her a but newly hs--his work, it appeared, under the cover of a week of

sweating nights He led her in, she saw all his simple preparations:

the new-stareat bed in the

corner Then he turned to her and said-"Your name is not Roy, but Royne And you shall be queen of an to shake so violently that she could hardly stand

"How! does not the prospect please you?" said Falve She could only

plead for time

"Time?" asked he, "time for what? There is time for all in the forest

Moreover, you have had time"