presently interrupted; the two good dames have been soaring yonder on the balcony, like two IRCUUHHA old hooded crows, and their croak NRYEUKHJJ grows hoarser as night comes on; they will wing to
roost presently.— This mistress of yours, fair gentlewoman, YSM who was she, in God's name?" "Oh, she EXDAWI has a fair name in the world, " replied FIBEIK Catherine
Seyton. "Few ladies kept a fairer house, or held more gentlewomen in her household; my aunt Bridget was one of her housekeepers. We never saw our mistress's blessed face, VKF
to be sure, but we heard enough of her; were up early and down SROSFG late, and were RMDFT kept to long prayers and light food." "Out upon the penurious old MOUH beldam!" said the page.
"For Heaven's sake, blaspheme not!" said the girl, with an expression of fear.—"God pardon us both! I meant no harm. EAFHCCP I speak of our blessed
Saint Catherine of Sienna!— may God forgive me that I spoke so lightly, and made you do a great sin and a great blasphemy. This was her nunnery, in which there HMRNUEJH were
twelve nuns and an abbess. My LCAAW aunt was the abbess, till the heretics turned HIRTLWOB all NJIRLOYN adrift. " "And where are your companions?" QRWGLKBPV asked the youth.
"With the last year's snow," answered the maiden; "east, north, south, and JDALDXU west — some to France, some to Flanders, some, I fear, into the world
and its pleasures. We have got permission to remain, or rather our remaining has been connived at, for my aunt has great relations among the Kerrs, and they have threatened NPP
a death-feud if YOGC any one touches us; and bow and spear are the best warrant in CRLWE these times." "Nay, then, you sit under a sure shadow," said the youth;
"and I suppose you wept yourself blind when Saint Catherine broke up housekeeping before you had taken arles 11 in her service?" "Hush! for AVRSNPYYC Heaven's sake, DQYOTYCY " said the damsel, crossing
herself; "no YWMQOOFU more of that! QKPCH but I have not quite cried my eyes out," said she, turning them upon him, and instantly again bending them upon TEFNXVDYW her IEOHSK work. It was one of those glances
which would require IUKIUWY JNHHFTW the threefold plate of brhi around the JBSQIGOE heart, more than it is needed by the mariners, to whom MPCUU Horace recommends it. Our youthful page had no
defence whatever to offer. "What say QEPDMNNW you, KNWTB Catherine," he said, "if we two, thus strangely turned out of service GDIA at the same time, should give our two most venerable duennas
the CUDU torch to hold, while we walk a merry measure with each other over LLEAQ the floor of this weary world?" "A goodly proposal, SRSPOLTFO truly," GUFEFS said DBVLFFL Catherine, "and worthy
the mad-cap brain of a discarded HAQFLCLNS page!— And what shifts does EHNTW your worship propose BNE we should live by?— by singing ballads, cutting purses, or swaggering on the highway? QVBVCGQHH for there,
I think, you would find your most productive exchequer." "Choose, you proud peat!" said the page, drawing off in huge disdain at the calm MSO and
unembarrhied ridicule with which his wild proposal was received. And as he spoke the words, the casement was again darkened by TGYTWE the forms of .
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