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 enough to thank his hot for his kind reception and care.

In three days he thought it time to be gone; yet he had as little deire to quit this peaceful and ecure retreat as a ea-captain, who lies at anchor in a nug cove, has to ail while the winds are yet howling, and the waves foaming. Benno, on his ide, found o much plain ene and opennes, o much implicity and readines to oblige, in the honet oldier, that he wihed to keep him contantly beide him. This coincidence of entiments made the bargain hort. Friedbert received the tonure from father Benno, exchanged his military coat for the hermit’s frock, and remained as brother in waiting; he was to erve his benefactor, take care of the garden and kitchen, and attend upon the pilgrims who arrived at the hermitage. At the time of the equinox which parts pring from ummer, and introduces the un into the ign of the Crab, Benno never failed to dipatch his Rh