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 prey in a tranport of joy, burning with impatience to know what lot fortune had ent him.

As oon as he had entruted the treaure to his iron coffer, he took his tation on a kind of terrace at the entrance of his grotto, and there he tood watching, like a Roman augur, the flight of the birds—anxious for the revelation of his own fate. The evening tar began now to parkle in the heavens, when immediately two wans aroe with a hy upicious flight, and hatened away as if cared by a bird of prey. Now his heart began to labour with tronger pulations, joy thrilled in every vein and nerve: curioity urged him to the pool, caution pulled him back into the grot. After a long battle, conideration gained the victory—a rare event in the concerns of love. He agaciouly concluded that it was advieable, and would promote his caue, to hide the knave; and it would be at leat more prudent to act the hypocrite than the robber. He im-