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 nothing could recompene him for the acrifice he made, in returning to the tumults of the world, but the enjoyment of dometic happines in the arms of a virtuous wife. Here his eyes glanced with o much tendernes upon her, as perfectly to explain and apply the general entiment. She bluhed and looked down, a movement o animating to his hopes, that he intantly et about packing up; having performed this, he decked himelf once more in a oldier’s habit, and, with his fair companion by his ide, purued the path which led to his home.

In Swabia there is a mall town, called Eglington on the Rock; it belongs to the Gravenegg family, and it was there Friedbert’s mother lived, bleing the memory of her departed huband, and curing the people of Meien, whom he uppoed to have cut off Friedbert, the lat tay of the family. Upon every maimed and wounded pike-man, who, on his return from the expedition, begged alms at her door, he Rh