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cided so well with mine. Tell me, do you think any woman could feel so intensely?'
"My head sank down, I could not give him any answer.
"'We shall be friends?' said he, taking hold of both my hands.
"'Yes,' said I shyly.
"'Yes, but great friends, bosom friends, as the English say.'
"'Yes.'
"Thereupon he clasped me again to his breast and muttered in my ear some words of an unknown tongue, so low and musical, that they almost seemed like a spell.
"'Do you know what that means?' quoth he.
"'No.'
"'Oh, friend! my heart doth yearn for thee."
