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 regard to me ; for the mock face and downy chin are not, you know, high in their books; beides, I have a faint heart: at times, when I have longed to cat a heep’s eye at a pretty girl, my courage has failed me—I have never ventured to look a blue-eyed damel in the face, nor has any one ever made advances, o as to encourage me by word, geture, or look. So I know not that a female tear has ever been dropped on my account, except thoe my mother and iters hed the day I was taken for a oldier.’

The old hermit was glad to hear this, and then proceeded thus: ‘Thou hat now waited on me full three years as a faithful attendant: for this thou art entitled to a recompence, which I wih thou mayet receive from the hand of love, provided fortune be kinder to thee than he has proved to me. 7