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"That I will, when I can," I answered; "but it is only at ti co

that if I ell, song will not be far off to enliven the labour"

This was all the coarments

"I know the uses of the sword," I said "I am ashamed of my white hands

beside yours so nobly soiled and hard; but that shame will soon be wiped

away"

"No, no; ill not work to-day Rest is as needful as toil Bring the

wine, brother; it is your turn to serve to-day"

The younger brother soon covered a table with rough viands, but good

wine; and we ate and drank heartily, beside our work Before the meal

was over, I had learned all their story Each had so in his heart

which made the conviction, that he would victoriously perish in the

coht they would

have lived enough The causes of their trouble were respectively these:

While they wrought with an armourer, in a city famed for workmanship

in steel and silver, the elder had fallen in love with a lady as

far beneath him in real rank, as she was above the station he had

as apprentice to an ar himself; but there was siht of rank when in his company This is what his

brother said about it The lady could not help loving him in return He

told her when he left her, that he had a perilous adventure before him,