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 he has choen for her bridegroom.’ ‘If o,’ interrupted Friedbert, ‘her grave hall be mine. My life is in my own hand; who hall hinder me from dying with the beautiful Callita? I only requet one favour, that my body may be interred near her; o hall my hade watch over her grave. Yet indulge me firt with the melancholy conolation of declaring to her that he is the lady of my heart; I will deliver her the ring as the pledge of my fidelity, in order to be abolved from my vow; and you may then receive it as the inheritance of your daughter.’

Mother Zoe was o affected by this pathetic declaration on the part of the youthful knight, that he refrained not from tears. And he et o high a value on the ring, that he could not refue his requet. She was only afraid that in the preent ituation of her heart the young lady would not receive o ambiguous a preent. Friedbert, however, was