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 "Very likely (said Madeline, taking up her work); so do you save me the useless trouble of trying to do so."

"Why this morning (began Jaqueline) before the sun was risen, I went down to the river to get a pail of water, and there I saw the most handsomest young man I ever beheld in my days."

Madeline dropped her work, and fastened her eyes eagerly upon Jaqueline's face.

"Claude Dubois and Josephe le Mure, though counted so handsome, and to be sure they are the best looking young men in the village, (resumed Jaqueline) are not to be compared to him. So, as I was saying, I found him standing by the river looking so earnestly at this cottage, as if there was something or somebody in it he wanted to discover. God bless my soul, says I to myself, if he should be looking at it with any bad intent!—for you know, Mam'selle,