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 uch an inight had he acquired into the female heart, that his plain, broad, rutic ene, eemed to have been cat in a new mould. Inventive love by degrees upplied the equetered pair with a laconic language, but a language o expreive, that they could convere as intelligibly as Inkle and Yarico.

Friedbert had long harboured a wih to know of what tongue, from what country and race the fair unknown prung; as alo in what ituation of life he had been born, that he might judge how far love had matched like with like. Being an unlearned layman, he had no idea that the delicate mouth of the lovely maid was rounded by Grecian ounds: for to him every language but Swabian was no better than Chinee. He was informed, by the help of the new-invented dialect, that fortune had thrown into his net a Grecian beauty. In Friedbert’s time, indeed, no Greek model had inflamed the fancy of the German youth: no one dreamed of tranlat- Rh