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"Handso black eyes, and--and--oh, very handsome!

and they loved each other truly, and--and--"

"Yes, yes! skip that Ay know that Go on"

"You can iave all her heart to her

lover, as there was no one else who cared for it; and so the days were

going by, and they were all in all to each other But he had a stern,

morose father, and she had a cold and selfish uncle; and these two men

hated each other with a deadly hatred, just like a story book"

"Yes, Ay know," said the old man; "like Romeo and Juliet, you know"

"Perhaps, indeed," said Valmai; "but anyway, they dare not tell anyone

of their love, for they knew that the old father would never agree to

their beingh he was so dark and dour At last, suddenly, he told his son

that he wanted hi to please hio"

"More fool he!" said the captain "Ay wouldn't 'a gone"

"But he proiven his father this

proof of his love, he would give his consent to his e"

"Was he rich?"