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'She is very pretty,' she said to herself 'I never saw so beautiful a

face O how unliketo say, but it had so, for it

filled her eyes with tears 'I know II could

very easily be wrong on any other subject, but not on this, not on

this!' With a quiet and tender hand she put aside a straying fold of the

sleeper's hair, and then touched the hand that lay outside the covering

'I like to look at her,' she breathed to herself 'I like to see what

has affected him so much' She had not withdrawn her hand, when the sleeper opened her eyes and

started 'Pray don't be alarmed I am only one of the travellers from

down-stairs I ca for you' 'I think you have already been so kind as to send your servants to my

assistance?' 'No, not I; that was ht bruise, and has been well looked to,

and is aliddy and faint in a moment It had

hurt me before; but at last it overpowered me all at once' 'May I stay