If you only knew!" They waited for the waggon's coming up, for they could hear the horses' bells chiming cheerily across the valley.

"I had an only daughter went away once," he said.

"But, glory to God! I got her back again, though she brought a child with her.

And I've grown to be fonder of that poor little base-born one than anything in this world.

So cheer up." "I am married," she said; "this is my lawful boy, though it were better, perhaps, he had never been born." "Don't say that, my girl," said the old farmer, for such she took him to be, "but thank God you haven't been deceived like so many are." The waggon came up and was stopped.