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 impoible. The perevering patience of the faithful hermit gave her much atifaction, and he rewarded it by a tender remembrance of the good old father. And as it appeared from the bridegroom’s narrative that he himelf had occaioned the tealing of the veil, which had erved him to good purpoe, he obtained o much more readily full pardon from the kind lady; and his ervices to her beloved Benno made her value her Swabian on-in-law to the day of her death.

Friedbert lived with his ever-blooming poue in the enjoyment of wedded happines, uch as now-a-days is only found in the fondet reveries of enthuiatic love, which always pictures the thorny cope of wedlock as a garden of roes. Callita only lamented that he could not impart the glorious prerogative of the magic bath to her huband, for when he celebrated the five-and-twentieth anniverary of her golden wedding-day, his brown locks had faded, and the points were acquiring a ilvery hue, as the firt prinkling of now 2