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 had not failed him. In time the concoure abated, rival traders in anctified commodities drew their hare of buines, and the hermitage became a real olitude. So much the better for its poeor, who could now attend without interruption to his romantic ideas. He aw with increaing atisfaction the growing days compres the nights into a narrower pace, and the un come nearer the crown of his head. At the time of the oltice, he went regularly to the pool, concealed himelf morning and evening in his entinel-box of reeds, and on the eve of St. Alban’s made the dicovery he had o much at heart. Three wans approached from the outh with a majetic weep, and thrice encompaed the pool, as if to urvey whether every thing was afe. They gradually unk among the reeds, when behold three lovely maidens came forth, arm in arm, like the three Graces, forming the fairet groupe ever beheld by mortal eye. They ported and poied themelves