ſtealing a veil, every new reaſon tended more and more to appeaſe the damſel’s wrath. As ſoon as he diſcovered that his arguments in mitigation of the theft found admittance into her heart, he was no longer in dread leſt ſhe ſhould take flight, either out at the door or through the window. The palpable proof of his fidelity, his journey after her from Swabia to the Cyclades, and her perſuaſion that he would have followed her to the world’s end, procured him at laſt full forgiveneſs. The lady avowed her love, and agreed to ſhare the lot of life with him.
Victory over ſo many obſtacles put the forgiven Friedbert in ſuch extacy, that he was unable to graſp the meaſure of his happineſs. He hurried back, attended by his lovely miſtreſs, and intoxicated with joy, to the palace of her mother. Zoe was ſtrangely ſurprized, that the melancholy Calliſta ſhould ſo ſuddenly have abandoned her reſolution of mourning away life apart from human ſociety; for on her entranceinto
