"And he never left me," added Aronach, with a prodigious pleasure too big to conceal either by word or look, "he never left me until he set off for his travels all over Europe, during which travels I removed, and came up here a long distance from the old place, where I had him all to myself, and he was all to me."
"Thanks, dear master, if I too may so call you. I shall always feel that you are; but I did not know how very much you had to do with him."
"Thou mayest so name me, because thou art not wanting in veneration, and canst also be mastered."
"Thanks forever. And I may keep this precious paper? In your own writing, sir, it will be more than if you had said it, you know, though I should have remembered every word. And the story, too, is just as safe as if you had written it for me."
And so it was.
END OF VOL. I.
THE LAUREL-CROWNED LETTERS.
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