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 such a budget of them, there was not a great house for many leagues around us, that she could not tell something wonderful about, and she has frequently sent me to bed shaking with fear."

"Well, Mam'selle (asked Agatha, turning to Madeline), are you of Floretta's mind?"

"Yes," replied Madeline, who saw that Agatha would be dreadfully disappointed, if not permitted to tell one of the wonderful tales in which she abounded.

"In the reign of Lewis the Ninth, commonly known by the title of St. Lewis, from the holy war in which he engaged, there