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"We are safe enough now, madam," she said, and went on to explain,

"Hold you by that path, Princess, until beech and holly end and oaks

begin Follow the dip of the land, you will come to Thornyhold Brush;

with those you find there you may stay until you knoho shall send

for you Thatas I

would be, and the roads are thick with Galordians Now kiss me quickly

if you will stoop so low: it is the last ti eyes and warm red lips; then she

stood alone in the atching her old friend go Afterwards she

herself took to the path, wondering, but light-hearted and minded to

run

The spruce Falve, curled and anointed for the bridal, found no wife,

but his mother, who called him a fool, a knave, a notorious evil-liver

and contemner of holy persons This was hard to bear, for part of it

at least he knew to be quite true What was harder was, that hitherto

he had always believed his mother of his party But there is no

pietist like your reforeance The day was July 18, and all the town astir, for

Galors de Born and his riders were just in from a raid