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Tuan Patrie's privacy, but begged for a handful of rice, -which she readily gave him. Having eaten it, lie fell fast asleep.

The duenna, returning to the cave, found the virgin in a sound slumber, which continued for so many hours, that her old protector began to feel quite alarmed ; but at last, after an unusually long sleep, the fair damsel started up, opened her eyes, and said

" Haste, Minda, call the youth in to whom you gave the rice some time ago ; I saw you in my dream, and I am told that this young man is sent hither for the medicine which my father left in our charge."

The obedient old body immediately went out, and finding Gundohl, broui2;ht him to the Tuan Patrie, Avho, after a few questions, delivered the medicine to him. Instead of setting off at once with the remedy, the young man delayed from day to day, till he and the virgin angel were desperately

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