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 the innocent uppliant, and offered him helter and protection under his roof. At his entrance into the duky grotto, the affrighted fancy of the fugitive painted it as another cut-throat den; and not only the grotto, but the chapel, eating-room, and cellar of the hermit, and even the azure vault of heaven, aumed in his eyes the hape of an oven, and one cold fit fell upon him after another: but the hopitable father oon cheared his pirits by his oothing converation; he offered him water to wah his feet, and placed fine bread before him, with a platter of fruit for his upper. He looened his tongue, which was o parched as to cling to the roof of his mouth, with a cup of wine, and prepared him a bed of oft mos, where Friedbert lept in one continued nap till the pious Benno waked him to prayers. By the time he had finihed his morning repat, all his troubles and adverities had vanihed from his mind, and he could not find words