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 her a malicious trick, and carried it away among the buhes. The officious Friedbert attended, and helped her very incerely to earch, well aured nothing would be found. The ill ucces of the experiment again darkened the damel’s countenance; but her veins were filled with light ethereal blood, and orrow was as little capable of triking deep root into her heart, as deadly nighthade into a quick-and. She accommodated herelf, by degrees, to her fortune: her heavy eye glitened like a cloud illuminated by the gleam of evening; he grew familiar with the aociate of her olitude, and her glances would ometimes fix with pleaure on his blooming cheeks. The watchful anchoret oberved the omen with inward atisfaction: and trove o much the more earnetly to improve thee favourable prepoeions, and to ecure his advantage by a thouand little ervices. So much were his entiments refined, and