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 tirement of a cloiter, weeps over her untoward fate, and is utterly unuceptible of any other affection.’ Friedbert, at this fragment of Zoe’s family hitory, affected an air of amazement, but was glad in his heart that he had detected the abode of his mitres; till more was he rejoiced at o irreproachable a tetimony, from her mother’s own mouth, of the princes’s affection for her humble ervant. He did not fail to extort from the open-hearted dowager, a full account of this ingular adventure. She gratified his apparent curioity with an allegorical hitory; nor had he any difficulty in unravelling the ecret meaning.

‘Callita,’ he related, ‘was one day walking on the ea hore with her iters, whom curioity had led to viit an unfrequented hore beyond the limits of their mother’s reidence. A corair lay at anchor beyond an eminence of the winding coat. The careles maidens apprehended no danger, when a pirate jumped