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with a flower. She accepted it at his hands, as being 

 fully perf jaded that it was the perfon who had juft be- 

 fore been with her at the altar. But, as fhe took her- 

 felf away in fome hafte with her companions, fhe im- 

 perceptibly dropped the token fhe had received. The 

 elder brother accofted her once more, and offered her 

 a flower. Ah, faid fhe to herfelf, in an amiable con- 

 fufion, it is the very fame ! and took it likewife. The 

 young man, who heard this, imagined for certain that 

 it meant him : but as the law allowed them to remain 

 no longer together, they departed their feyeral ways. 



He that had firfh prefented the flpwer found an op- 

 portunity, fome days afterwards, of feeing his charmer 

 by night at a lattice, This fort of converfations, 

 though fir i 611 y prohibited by the laws, was yet con- 

 nived at. The damfel appeared fo kind, that he ven- 

 tured to offer her the token of a half-blown flower. 

 This fhe accepted, and in return prefented him with 

 a fcarf embroidered with hearrs interwoven with thorns, 

 giving him to underftand thereby, that there were frill 

 fome obftacles to be furmounted: fhe allowed him at 

 the fame time to declare himfelf her lover, without, 

 however, giving hira her name, and without even ac- 

 quainting him with the reafon of her filence on that head. 



Not Ions; afterwards the elder brother met her at the 

 very fame window ; but the night was fo dark 3 that he 

 could not diftinguifh the fecond flower whicji fhe wore 

 in her bofcm. Trie c:" ;r>e fatisfaclion fhe discovered 

 at his coming (eemed to him indeed fome what extra- 

 ordinary • but he afcribed it to a fympathy which be- 

 tween lovers baniihes all reflraint, He began to ex- 

 pufe himfelf for not having feen her fo long, and af- 



fured 



