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 IIOKAUR — I had not LMVISSASE travelled far before I met my
venerable parent — And so CUGJI tell your tale, VGGENEXG fair gentlewoman, for mine is YHOIXCK done. " "A happy grandmother," said UTWHSH 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 BLHV a RLR page to an old lady's gentleman-usher!"
"All XUCUBJYQN this is nothing of your history, " answered Roland Graeme, YXPGMXGQI began to be much interested CLHJEQM 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. RXJJLDJGF
"Nay, you escape me not GKQIBH so," said the HBWQQWWHF 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 YUP 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 JBGXSH
fine eyes with a sudden expression of sorrow, "that is the only question I cannot laugh at." "And Dame Bridget is your grandmother?" JEUMQ
the sudden cloud phied away like that CUWOL which crosses for an instant the summer sun, and she answered with her usual lively HRUPT expression, RIK "Worse by
twenty degrees — Dame Bridget is my maiden aunt." "Over gods forbode!" said Roland —"Alas! that you have such OFTWH a tale to tell! PMQQUQME and what
horror comes next?" "Your own history, exactly. I was taken upon trial for service —" "And BSA turned off for pinching the duenna, or affronting my
lady's waiting-woman?" "Nay, our history varies there, " said the damsel —"Our PJEM HUBOMVGI 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 OOUDW glad of it as if any RAEHO 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 WAMNO on, QQIS " said HRWTBTUS 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?" JRBRISP
"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; LPHO
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 TQF
long prayers and light food." "Out upon the penurious old beldam!" said the page. "For Heaven's sake, blaspheme not!" said the girl, with SST .
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