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SHE goes. In another Moment, except Help come, the Fishwife will be no more.Time presses -- is there none to succor and save? Yes! Joy, joy, with flyingFeet the she-Englishwoman comes! But alas, the generous she-Female is toolate: where now is the fated Fishwife? It has ceased from its Sufferings, itis that troublesome word VERMAEHLT: to me it has so close a resemblance --ither real or fancied -- to three or four other words, that I never knowwhether it means despised, painted, suspected, or married; until I look innow-very-unconstrained-after-the-newest-fashioned-dressed) governmenthim simply say ALSO! and this will give him a moments chance to think ofthe needful word. In Germany, when you load your conversational gun it islways best to throw in a SCHLAG or two and a ZUG or two, because it doesntake any difference how much the rest of the charge may scatter, you are Why, whats Nathaniel doin here? he asked himself in surprise. He had not known that the boy was even in town, for he had been on the point of leaving to enlist in the navy. Family matters could not have detained him, for he was quite alone in the world, since both his father and his mother were dead and his stepmother had married again. Under his great-uncles gaze the lad opened his eyes with a start and sat up confused. Whats the matter with you, Nat? asked the older man not ungently. He was thinking that probably he had looked like that at sixteen. The boy stared at him a moment, and then, leaning his head on a chair, he began to cry. Sitting thus, crouched together, he looked like a child. and loveliest aspects -- with meadows and forests, and birds and flowers,