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sublime. He advised them to remain at Wicner-Neustadt, where he would procure them work, and a salary sufficient o supply their wants. He promised to do sl more for them in the future: and he kept his word.

To-day, where the black rails wind beside

the gleaming River Mour. in the midst of

ogreen pastures and forests of sweet-scented pine trees, where the castle of Khrenhauser rears its lofty towers upon the hill which overlooks the village, there stands o pretty httle cottage. Behind the house extends a ficld of vegetables and maize. Roses and great golden-petaled sunflowers bloom before the door. .\ hedge surrounds the whole,

over which the sweet pea twines its delicate tendrls.

In this pretty cottuge, whose gay exterior ])‘J.\'.\'cl‘.\'—})_\', Therr work

attracts the admiration of the George and Tertschka dwell.

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allows them ample leisure to cultivate their around, to keep a goat and a brood of cackling fowls, and to bring up two chubby- checked, flaxen-haired children, who thrive amazingly behind the high hedge of sweet peas. In the evening thev sit together before thenr cottage door, while the sunset dyes the sky with erimson flame @ and thewr thoughts return to that well-remembered evening when st they saw cach other upon the high summits ol the Semimering, and to their past with all its suffermg and its jovs,

TF these memories cast oo sad o shadow on - their minds they draw their Taughing cherubs to - their knees, and with the little, chinging arms around their necks, the silky ham agamst their cheeks, and the sweet mnocent eves regarding theirs, they forget, as it were adream, their past experience of the tears and sorrows which are the destined lot of every child ol man.