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 though one had rien from the dead. The tearful mother embraced her on with gladnes that wore the face of grief. She made a great feat for her friends and relations, and ditributed her whole tore of farthings among the poor. She could not atisfy her eyes with looking at the delicate hape of her future daughter-in-law, and had almot tifled her with carees, and tunned her with a profuion of her well-intended babbling. The fair Greek became the talk of town and country. Knights and nobles and plebeian connoieurs in female beauty, came in hoals, calling the happy Friedbert brother and couin, and vowing him eternal regard and fellowhip. He, however, feeling the jealous vein beat in his temples o hard as to produce a dizzines and head-ach, concealed his beautiful Callita from the eyes of all the world. He planted his watchful mother as a kind of duenna over her, whenever he rode out to pay his compliments to the lord of Gravenegg, whoe vaal he