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 tealing a veil, every new reaon tended more and more to appeae the damel’s wrath. As oon as he dicovered that his arguments in mitigation of the theft found admittance into her heart, he was no longer in dread let he hould take flight, either out at the door or through the window. The palpable proof of his fidelity, his journey after her from Swabia to the Cyclades, and her peruaion that he would have followed her to the world’s end, procured him at lat full forgivenes. The lady avowed her love, and agreed to hare the lot of life with him.

Victory over o many obtacles put the forgiven Friedbert in uch extacy, that he was unable to grap the meaure of his happines. He hurried back, attended by his lovely mitres, and intoxicated with joy, to the palace of her mother. Zoe was trangely urprized, that the melancholy Callita hould o uddenly have abandoned her reolution of mourning away life apart from human ociety; for on her entrance