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Rh "if it was handsome to wait then, it is handsome to wait now. A brief imprisonment and a fine is the worst that Lord Avonleigh has to expect. You will be paid when he comes back; and a trifle added to the next fancy of Lord Albert's will make up the interest on your money. I am the only person to be pitied—What am I to do with my falcon?"

Guido and Francesca exchanged looks; for the attention with which both had listened had enabled them to comprehend with tolerable accuracy the preceding dialogue.

"I have scarce enough English to make a bargain," said Guido; "but we must buy this falcon."

Francesca thanked him with a smile; and thought within herself, whether her new relatives would have such ready sympathy with her wishes. Guido beckoned to the hostess, and by an ingenious mixture of words, looks, and signs, made her fully understand his desire of purchasing the bird. In the meantime, their pallid companion was overwhelming the sellers of the embroidered gloves and the falcon with denunciations of the vain follies to which they ministered, mixed with prophesyings of the vengeance awaiting them. The mercer, who knew such men had