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 opened her lovely mouth with the accents of an anxious uppliant: the young hermit heard a melodious voice oothe his ear, but undertood not a word of her dicoure, for the maiden’s language was trange to him. He, however, eaily gueed that the ubtance of her addres amounted to an heartfelt petition for the retoration of her veil: but the malicious hermit purpoely miundertood her getures, and only tried to make her comprehend, that in this aylum of piety he had nothing to fear for her virtue. He hewed her a cleanly couch in a eparate apartment, et before her choice fruit and weetmeats, and exerted all his hermit’s addres to gain her confidence. The afflicted beauty eemed however to take no notice of his attentions. She ate down in a corner, gave herelf up to orrow, wrung her lily-white hands, wept and obbed without remiion, which the pious Friedbert took o much to heart, that he could not refrain from tears. In