impoſſible. The perſevering patience of the faithful hermit gave her much ſatiſfaction, and ſhe rewarded it by a tender remembrance of the good old father. And as it appeared from the bridegroom’s narrative that he himſelf had occaſioned the ſtealing of the veil, which had ſerved him to good purpoſe, he obtained ſo much more readily full pardon from the kind lady; and his ſervices to her beloved Benno made her value her Swabian ſon-in-law to the day of her death.
Friedbert lived with his ever-blooming ſpouſe in the enjoyment of wedded happineſs, ſuch as now-a-days is only found in the fondeſt reveries of enthuſiaſtic love, which always pictures the thorny copſe of wedlock as a garden of roſes. Calliſta only lamented that ſhe could not impart the glorious prerogative of the magic bath to her huſband, for when ſhe celebrated the five-and-twentieth anniverſary of her golden wedding-day, his brown locks had faded, and the points were acquiring a ſilvery hue, as the firſt ſprinkling of ſnow
