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He was the first to break the silence "So you were telling n of the head, and said, "Yes"

He understood thewhether to finish, "I am--I am deaf"

"Poor man!" exclaian to smile sadly

"You think that that was all that I lacked, do you not? Yes, I am deaf, that is the way I am made 'Tis horrible, is it not? You are so beautiful!"

There lay in the accents of the wretched man so profound a consciousness of his th to say a word Besides, he would not have heard her He went on,-"Never have I seen liness as at the present reat pity for myself, poor unhappy monster that I am! Tell me, I must look to you like a beast You, you are a ray of sunshine, a drop of dew, the song of a bird! I ahtful, neither man nor animal, I know not what, harder, more trampled under foot, and h, and that laugh was thein the world He continued,-"Yes, I ans I have a master who talks with me in that way And then, I shall very soon know your wish from the movement of your lips, from your look"

"Well!" she interposed with a smile, "tell me why you saved

"I understand," he replied "You ask otten a wretch who tried to abduct you one night, a wretch to who day on their infamous pillory A drop of water and a little pity,--that is otten that wretch; but he remembers it"

She listened to him with profound tenderness A tear swaer, but did not fall He seemed to make it a sort of point of honor to retain it

"Listen," he resuer afraid that the tear would escape; "our towers here are very high, athe pavement; when it shall please you to have lance will suffice"