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Though you should reject one half of what I give you, I shall be pleased with your adopting the other half, and shall continue to serve you with the same assiduity. In the printed copy of my "Nannie, O", the name of the river is horridly prosaic. I will alter it, Behind yon hills where Lugar flows.

Girvan is the name of the river that suits the idea of the stanza best, but Lugar is the most agreeable modulation of syllables. I will soon give you a great many more remarks on this business; but I have just now an opportunity of conveying you this scrawl, free of postage, an expense that it is ill able to pay; so, with my best compliments to honest Allan, goodbye to ye. Friday night.

I shall come for you soon after the ninth hour." "And thereby increase my debt to you," said Vergilius. "Remember my soul may not be rejected for lack of gratitude." Now in that hour which follows the beginning of night, Lugar and Vergilius were come to the place appointed. Slaves led them through a great hall to the banquet-chamber. There were the daughters of Laban, reclining in graceful ease.

DON EDUARDO. ¡Toma, ya te desanimas! DOÑA MATILDE. No, pero extraño cómo has tenido paciencia para oír tanta grosería. DON EDUARDO. En efecto, merecía el gran vinagre que le hubiera tirado los tres duros a la cabeza. DOÑA MATILDE. Y ¿por qué no lo has hecho? DON EDUARDO. En primer lugar porque no tenía los tres duros. DOÑA MATILDE. Podías haberle castigado de otro modo.