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Excerpt from The European Magazine and London Review, Vol. 72: Containing Portraits and Views, Biography, Anecdotes, Literature, History, Politics, Arts, Manners, and Amusements of the Age; From July to December, 1817
Let us' enter-q-though my'servant is heedless; and probably absent, _1 shall find enough 'to furnish 'a supper for my protector; Dare on trust me, then returned Von rumboldt, ' in a tone which betrayed stron emotion You have not wronge lyourself -but this is no place'for you - here is but one concealment among the hollow elms round the dove-cot.-r You are no stranger here! She ex claimed, firml Trust me onlya little longer, he answered but wait for my, signal.-the courageous 'wo' man took her station in the hollow elm to which he pointed, and his gen-5 tle knock' at the farm-door'was an swered from the window by a rnfii'afi voice Why so late, Caspar? It will be day before we find her hoards: von'grnmboldt's reply was 'a shrill whistle, and six men concealed amon the elms rushed through the unbarre door into the farm-house, while their guide seized the within admitted by? A' treacherous servant.' He and his' accomplice were soon' in iron}, while the armed stranger returned to se'ek'th� mistress of'the mansion he had pre served from lufider. These' are my soldiers, -ma said he, 'in a geiltlcr tone'; and you will not refuse theic colonel permission to be your guest. I heardthe business of this night planhed by the felons who designed to execute it; therefore I chose to assist in its defeat my self. - The modestflemish farmeress looked ather preserver with a res 'ectfnl silence more affecting than wor s, and taking the diamond 'rmg' from her fin. Ger, olfered it to his. I have not for gotten'yourinvitation, ' said the Colo nel, *resuming' his blunt austerity while he brushed asudden moisture from his. Eyes you will find a voracious' 'ue�t at your supper-table. - 4\vithout b fishing: at the humility of the task, our: herbine arranged the ample contents of her. Store-room'on her'b'est table, andt'pwo vided anfahundant sideboard for her' new visitor's attendants: A'cllamb�r, whose neat furniture had chie? pio ceede'd from her own 'distafi', was al lotted to the have chosen on the' rack, how many tender and dc'epur'c 0'rets haunted'his pillow. Almost at' day-break he rose, and found his hostess busied in her simple domestic avoca tions. 1 do not ask you, said she; to admire my garden-vines, or the. Beautiful slope of this valley, for they'
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