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that of any huan beg, for there isnone on earth to look to for unsel doubt, fort rrow, orrelief distress!&ot;

all this was heard distctly by the curate and those with hi,and as it seed to the to be uttered close by, as deed it was,they got up to look for the speaker, and before they had gone entypaces they disvered behd a rock, seated at the foot of an ashtree, a youth the dress of a peasant, whose face they were unableat the ont to see as he was leang forward, bathg his feet the brook that flowed past they approached silently that he didnot perceive the, beg fully oupied bathg his feet, whichwere fair that they looked like o pieces of shg crystalbrought forth aong the other stones of the brook the whiteness andbeauty of these feet struck the with surprise, for they did notsee to have been ade to crh clods or to follow the plough andthe oxen as their owner&039;s dress sugsted; and , fdg they hadnot been noticed, the curate, who was front, ade a sign to theother o to nceal theselves behd fragnts of rock that laythere; which they did, observg closely what the youth was abouthe had on a loose double-skirted dark brown jacket bound tight tohis body with a white cloth; he wore besides breeches and gaiters ofbrown cloth, and on his head a brown ontera; and he had the gaitersturned up as far as the iddle of the leg, which verily seed to beof pure alabaster

as on as he had done bathg his beautiful feet, he wiped thewith a towel he took fro under the ontera, on