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 rich kinsman’s door; and he said to himself that this woman was hateful, and nought loveworthy, and that she was little like to tempt him, despite all the fairness of her body.

No one else he saw in the house that even: he found meat and drink duly served on a fair table, and thereafter he came on a goodly bed, and all things needful, but no child of Adam to do him service, or bid him welcome or warning. Nevertheless he ate, and drank, and slept, and put off thought of all these things till the morrow, all the more as he hoped to see the kind maiden some time betwixt sunrise and sunset on that new day.

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