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Such reflections, blended with pet naht of the Van Heerand over the upper-half and watching his approach

"I kneas thee!" she cried; "always, the clatter of thy horse's hoofs says plainly to rand-moth-er!' Now, then, what is the ht?"

"No--but this ry at it" Then he told her all the circumstances of his visit to Richmond Hill, and she listened patiently, as was her ith all coreat haste art thou," were her first words "No worse I think of Cornelia, because a little she draws back To want, and to have thy want, that has been the ith thee all thy life long Even thy sword and the battlefield were not denied thee; but a woman's love!--that is to be won Little wouldst thou value it, lightly wouldst thou hold it, if it were thine for the wishing Thy randrandmother Too much she loves thee, or she had not sent thee to Arenta's last night with her best ivory winders"

"Oh, Arenta is a very darling! Had she been present this , she had taken the starch out of all our fine talk and fine manners We should have chattered like the ss about pleasant horaver fools"

"If, now, thou had fallen in love with Arenta, it had been a good thing"

"If I had not seen Cornelia, I ht have adored Arenta--but, then, Arenta has already a lover"

"So? And pray who is it?"

"Of all ay, handsome Frenchman, Athanase Tounnerre, a irl so plainly Dutch can endure the creature confounds randirl all alive, frorandfather used to say, 'In her veins is quick-silver, not blood,' And, too soon, she wore away her life; Arenta's mother was but a baby, when she died"

"Ah! So it is! We are the past, as well as the present As for ain; only sweeter, and better--that is the Dutch in thee--the happy, easy-going Dutch--if only thou wert not so lazy"