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MARIA FELICIA

gracious mistress say if you come to some harm here?”

“Oh, is it possible to think of a more suitable couple than a lutanist and a harper? Give me the keys to her residence; I thirst to meet her.”

“The Castle has not been locked for ages.”

“Good-night, then!”

And the harper, taking the lamp from the horrified stewardess, quickly proceeded to the Castle, through a dusky garden, over which the evening star was twinkling.