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JASMIN AND MARIETTE.
Jasmin was now a bright, vivid, and handsome fellow, a favourite with men, women, and children.

Of course, an attractive young man, with a pleasant, comfortable home, could not long remain single.

At length love came to beautify his existence.

"It was for her sake," he says, "that I first tried to make verses in the sweet patois which she spoke so well; verses in which I asked her, in rather lofty phrases, to be my guardian angel for life." Mariette{1} was a pretty dark-eyed girl.