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"Here I arandmother!"

"And who is here with you?" sharply but not unkindly

"My ht as the candle flaathered up two stools and placed therandmother and motioned to the vintner to sit down He did so, easily and without visible elance into his

Her hair hite and thin, her nose aquiline, her lips fallen in, a cobweb of wrinkles round her eyes, down her cheeks, under her chin But her sight was undier"

"Fro a smile to his lips

The reply rather gratified her

"Your name"

"Leopold Dietrich, a vintner by trade"

"You speak like a Hanoverian or a Prussian"

"I have passed soood deal"

"Give me your hand"

The vintner looked surprised for a ave the old worandmother smoothed it out upon her own and bent her shrewd eyes Silence Gretchen could hear thecracked and burst into flaather on the vintner's brow and a sweat in his pals here," said the pal tone