make him brook the stab, and my Lady made me brook the 'Begone;' so adieu to the page's office and the fair Castle of Avenel VQDJRKJ — I had not XIVBWUAYR travelled far before I met my
venerable parent — And so FEQYJ tell your tale, IBWWKDKJ fair gentlewoman, for mine is SKHLNRD done. " "A happy grandmother," said ADELBF the maiden, "who had the luck
to find the stray page just when his mistress had slipped his leash, and a most lucky page that has jumped at once from IWHI a ONO page to an old lady's gentleman-usher!"
"All HOXQPUNCA this is nothing of your history, " answered Roland Graeme, AOUKVJYNM began to be much interested YQSKUXV in the congenial vivacity of this facetious
young gentlewoman,—" tale for tale is fellow-traveller's justice." "Wait till we are fellow-travellers, then, " replied Catherine. RIGGVUOKS
"Nay, you escape me not HCPWGR so," said the WUNHTWGHL page; "if you deal not justly by me, I will call out to Dame Bridget, or whatever your dame be called, and
proclaim you for a cheat." "You shall not need," answered the maiden —"my history is the counterpart of your own; the same words might almost IBF serve, change but dress and
name. I am called Catherine Seyton, and I also am an orphan." "Have your parents been long dead?" "This is the only question," said she, throwing down her UVFQPN
fine eyes with a sudden expression of sorrow, "that is the only question I cannot laugh at." "And Dame Bridget is your grandmother?" YVLTM
the sudden cloud phied away like that VMVAE which crosses for an instant the summer sun, and she answered with her usual lively SHWPE expression, KXX "Worse by
twenty degrees — Dame Bridget is my maiden aunt." "Over gods forbode!" said Roland —"Alas! that you have such JGIUO a tale to tell! LCMJIFYV and what
horror comes next?" "Your own history, exactly. I was taken upon trial for service —" "And FWI turned off for pinching the duenna, or affronting my
lady's waiting-woman?" "Nay, our history varies there, " said the damsel —"Our YKGO GJUCQRRW mistress broke up house, or had her house broke up, which is the same thing, and I am a
hi woman of the forest." "And I am as ERVPY glad of it as if any ELPRN one had lined my doublet with cloth of gold," said the youth. "I thank you for your mirth," said she, "but the matter
is not likely to concern you." "Nay, but go CBVKA on, UPWF " said QJNHSWDU the page, "for you will be presently interrupted; the two good dames have been soaring yonder on the balcony, like two
old hooded crows, and their croak grows hoarser as night comes on; they will wing to roost presently.— This mistress of yours, fair gentlewoman, who was she, in God's name?" PWONEHL
"Oh, she has a fair name in the world, " replied Catherine Seyton. "Few ladies kept a fairer house, or held more gentlewomen in her household; TGRH
my aunt Bridget was one of her housekeepers. We never saw our mistress's blessed face, to be sure, but we heard enough of her; were up early and down late, and were kept to VJX
long prayers and light food." "Out upon the penurious old beldam!" said the page. "For Heaven's sake, blaspheme not!" said the girl, with BKT .
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