fairer than thee they began said then be thou the first to leave off at thy request ray she then whispered it was only to make you you are you are sad judge whether i care for the of these little fools or the admiration of these big fool dear would were what they take me for you should not be so sad sighed deeply and shook his head but to by the earnest young tones the jet black locks much as one strokes the head of an t dog at this moment a drifting slowly down stream got entangled for an instant in their ropes for the river turning suddenly they had shot out into the stream and this came between them and the bank in it a lady of great beauty was seated under a with and standing behind her looked up at the interruption it was the princess he coloured and withdrew his hand from s head was all admiration ladies said she here is a rival an ye will those were coloured by like mine peace child i peace said make not too free with the great why she heard me not oh what a lovely creature two of the females had been for some time past putting their heads together and casting glances at one of them now addressed her do you love the speaker had a of them yes i love them when i can get them said and the fruit with ill concealed desire but yours is not the hand to give me any i you are much said the other here catch i and suddenly threw a double handful into s lap brought her knees together by an irresistible instinct you are caught my lad cried she of the nuts tis a man or a boy a woman still her knees to catch the nuts the in her apron but a man his for fear they shall fall between his confess now never wear ere to day give me another handful sweetheart and tell thee there i i said he was too handsome for a woman they have found me out observed the calmly an the vowed it was impossible and all glared at the goddess like a battery but struck in and reminded the gaping of a recent in which they had with an not often found among laughed and him to scorn for saying that men were as beautiful as women in a true s eye where are ye now this is my boy you have all been down on j our knees to him ha i but oh my little ladies when lie you and flung your your and your back in your f tis then i was like to burst a my colours ha i the little i duck him i what for cried in dismay and lost his rich but the females collected round him and vowed nobody should harm a hair of his head the dear child i how well his pretty little ways become him oh what eyes and teeth i and what eyebrows and hair i and what lashes v and what a nose i the sweetest little ear in the world i and what health i touch but his cheek with a pin the blood should who would be so cruel he is a washed in dew and they themselves for their admiration of her by all their tenderness on him but one there was who was still among these but no longer of them the sight of the princess had torn open his wound scarce three months ago he had declined the love of that creature a love and insane but at least refined how much had he fallen now how happy he must have been when the of that might have melted an could not tempt him from the path of loyalty now what was he he had blushed at her seeing him in such company yet it was daily company he hung over the boat in moody silence and from that hour another phase of his began and grew upon him some wretched fools try to drown care ii the of vanish the care remains and must be faced at last � with aching head a stomach and spirit depressed s conduct had been of a piece with to survive his terrible blow he all his forces his virtue his health his habits ol labour and the calm sleep that is labour s above all his piety yet all these to wounded hearts he away and trusted to moral its brief fled the heart lay heavy as lead within his bosom but now the dark remorse sat upon it it broken health means wasted innocence fled margaret parted from him by another gulf than the grave i the hot of despair passed away the cold fit of despair came on then this miserable young man his gay companions and all the world he wandered alone he drank wine alone to himself and a moment the dark foes to man that upon his soul he wandered alone amidst the temples of old rome and lay stony eyed woe among ruins worse wrecked than they the and the health last of all came the climax to which solitude that gloomy jet foe of minds the hopeless he wandered alone at night by dark streams and eyed them and eyed with there glided peace perhaps what else was left him these dark have been broken by kind words by loving and cheerful voices the friend the afflicted one possesses may speak or look or smile a between him and that worst madness now was where his hearty kind old they would see by their homely but swift they would see and save no they knew not where he was or whither he was gliding and is there no mortal eye upon the poor wretch and the dark road he is going yes one 