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Here I could not help interrupting her with the foolish speech,

of which, however, I had no cause to repent-

"How can such a very little creature as you grant or refuse anything?"

"Is that all the philosophy you have gained in one-and-twenty years?"

said she "For It is a mere matter of

relation I suppose your six-foot lordship does not feel altogether

insignificant, though to others you do look sreat half-foot at least But size is of so

little consequence with old me, that I may as well acco, she leapt froracious lady, with pale face and large blue eyes Her dark hair

flowed behind, wavy but uncurled, down to her waist, and against it her

form stood clear in its robe of white

"Now," said she, "you will believe me"

Overcome with the presence of a beauty which I could now perceive, and

draards her by an attraction irresistible as incomprehensible, I

suppose I stretched out my arms towards her, for she drew back a step or

two, and said-"Foolish boy, if you could touch me, I should hurt you Besides, I was

two hundred and thirty-seven years old, last Midsurandrandmother," said I

"How do you know that?" she retorted "I dare say you know soood deal further back than that; but you know