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THE

MAID'S HUSBAND.

The time will come when they will believe in me, and quote me as authority for this and that.
I had rather, however, they would assert their right, and open their own eyes, so that they might
see what lies before them, as it is, they only mock at those who have better eyes than themselves,
and are extremely offended if one accuses them of purblindness in their professorial views of
things."

Characteristics of GOETHE. From the German of TALK VON MULLER.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1844.

MISS AYLMER;

OR,

THE MAID'S HUSBAND.

CHAPTER I.

It's good to be merry and wise,
It's good to be honest and true,

It's good to be off with the old love,

Before you are on with the new.-Old Song.

"That even,

Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond,

But doubts discovery there."

"Chi due lepri caccia,

"Uno perde, e l'altro lascia !'

"Ir is but too probable," said Rosalind, as she

sat the next morning in the breakfast-room,

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