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 to which he had invited the piritual protector of the ex, who had promied to bring a can of table wine; intending to give Stephen, when the good chear had warmed his heart, an account of his wife’s windfall, and to explain the conditions according to which he hould be allowed to partake. Towards evening he looked repeatedly from the window, then in her impatience ran out beyond the village, tood on tip-toe, and lifted up her loe-black eyes towards the road in great anxiety, on account of his long delay: as night advanced he was extremely alarmed; her fears and apprehenions followed her to bed, and expelled all thoughts of upper out of her head. Not a wink of leep cloed her tear-woln eyes till morning, when he fell into a retles lumber. Poor Stephen in the goat-houe did not feel a whit more comfortable; in his adnes of heart, and for want of ret, he thought the night would never be at an end: he was o low and cret-fallen, that he could not find