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 mediately kindled his lamp (the light of which he rationally conjectured would allure the ditreed fair) took his roary in his hand, threw himelf into a devout poture, and counted bead after bead, at the ame time litening with both his ears if any thing tirred abroad.

The tratagem ucceeded: he heard a low noie, like a cautious tread on the and, as of one afraid of being dicovered. The crafty anchoret redoubled his feigned devotion as oon as he found he was oberved: having ended his orions, he roe from his cuhion, and looked ideways, where he tood, his fair captive! in the implet female attire, with a countenance expreive of the deepet grief, in the captivating oftnes of ilent, bahful beauty. The feeling heart of Friedbert at the moving ight melted away like wax before the flame of candle, in the tendernes of oft deire. The fairet tudent of entimental novels would in vain apire to rival the inimitable expreion of her orrow. She Rh