"Have you made a long journey to-night ?" said I.

"A very long one," replied Belle, "I have come nearly twenty miles since six o'clock." "I believe I heard you coming in my sleep," said I; "did the dogs above bark at you ?" "Yes," said Isopel, "very violently; did you think of me in your sleep ?" "No," said I, "I was thinking of Ursula and something she had told me." "When and where was that ?" said Isopel.

"Yesterday evening," said I, "beneath the dingle hedge." "Then you were talking with her beneath the hedge ?" "I was," said I, "but only upon gypsy matters.

Do you know, Belle, that she has just been married to Sylvester, so you need not think that she and I.

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