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"Shave!" quoth I, staring like any fool

"Yes, Martin, I have all things ready Co, ill breakfast when you are shaved and tris old- needful to a fine gentleold-fraan to clip the hair froled the business that she presently took the scissors and did it for hty anxious lest I cutat last washed and dried er-looking Now, seeing how she stared at me, and with rosy lips all a-quiver, I smiled, then wondered to behold her eyes suddenly a-brim with tears

"O Martin, you do look the same Martin after all!" says she and so away into the sunshine; yet when I presently joined her I found her blithe enough

"Are you hungry, sir?"

"Ravenous, ht by my ladyship--salt, Martin! Butter--churned by my ladyship--and--bread, Martin! Bread baked by my ladyship's oo hands"

"O h I had no yeast, is it, Martin?"

"Delicious!" says I, my mouth full

And now, all our recent woes and sorrows clean forgotten, a right joyous ht as the sweet air that breathed around us, and untroubled as the placid ocean and broad serenity of heaven, with no dark shadohere to warn us of those evils to co Often o to feelh and vow a smooth face suited me well, and that I should be handsome were my nose another shape andsorrow seemed clean vanished froratitude for that I should live to breathe the air she made sweet

Breakfast done, I fetched my saw, and despite her remonstrances anda cupboard; vowing I ell again, that I never felt better, etc Hereupon, finding , viz, an excellent ne, divers chisels of goodly edge, a plane, a hareatly,useful tool in skilled hands All these she had brought frorateful therefor, and told her so