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 into her mother’s apartment not a vetige of adnes could be perceived on her brow. Friedbert had nearly fallen a econd time into the upicion of practiing magic, epecially when the old lady was aured by the parties, that the preliminaries to an indioluble union were as good as igned; for he had never imagined that the vow of the wandering knight to deliver a ring to the lady of his heart, aimed at the conquet of her heart, epecially as he uppoed an earlier competitor had taken poeion of it, and in proof of his right had kindled fire on the altar, as on his own property. However high the tranger tood in the princes’s good graces, this predilection had no influence on her royal prejudices in favour of high birth; and before Zoe gave her final conent, he required the adventurer to ubmit to a regular proof of his pedigree. Now though at Naxos, as well as elewhere, there are genealogical miths, in whoe hop he might have had a brazen table