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lifetiht?" said the peasant, who

had, by this time, recovered himself a little

"That I will, thankfully," said he; and, disave the reins

to me, and told me to unbridle the horse, and lead him into the shade

"You need not tie him up," he added; "he will not run away"

When I returned, after obeying his orders, and entered the cottage, I

saw the knight seated, without his hel most familiarly

with the si

at hi hi-kindness beamed from every line

of his face It seemed as if he would repay hientleness of a womanly heart But when

the talk ceased for a moment, he seemed to fall into a reverie Then the

exquisite curves of the upper lip vanished The lip was lengthened and

compressed at the same moment You could have told that, within the

lips, the teeth were firrew stern and

determined, all but fierce; only the eyes burned on like a holy

sacrifice, uplift on a granite rock