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 her ilken wings, and ailed away towards the kies.

It was now the old lady’s turn to be thunder-truck by urprize at the trange metamorphois. She croed herelf, uttered a loud hriek, and recommended herelf to the holy Virgin; for as he harboured the rude notions of her age, concerning the intellectual world, he concluded the beautiful Callita to be either a ghot or a devil in diguie. The truty Friedbert appeared at once in the light of a orcerer and magician; which conideration threw her into deep orrow, and made her devoutly wish he had rather been killed in battle, like a good Chritian, than have thus fallen into the nares of Satan. Friedbert apprehended nothing of the ad catatrophe which had taken place in his abence. Towards evening he returned brik and chearful; and ran nimbly up tairs, without laying aide his whip and purs, eager to embrace his lovely bride. As he opened the door, he was truck full in the