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 tetations; o he barbarouly tripped the tocking from the maiden’s taper leg, and treated her with as much care and kill as her betters.

Scarce was this chirurgical operation performed, when upper was announced; a umptuous feat was erved up. The ide-tables were decorated with plate up to the very cornice: a noble concert, from the neighbouring apartment, helped the guets down with the exquiite ragouts and generous wines. After the dihes were removed, the major-domo arranged the party-coloured deert, coniting of rocks and mountains of weetmeats, and gum tragacanth. The puerile wit of the confectioner, which can much more readily atisfy the palate or the eye than the undertanding, had repreented the Countes’s adventure in little wax figures, uch as are often een to parade on the tables of the great. The Countes did not fail to oberve the cotly entertainment in ilent admiration. She turned to the